An Offer You Can't Refuse [electronic resource] : Workfare in International Perspective
Lødemel, Ivar.
Trickey, Heather.
Bristol : Policy Press,
2001.
An offer you can't refuse' compares, in depth, international 'work-for-welfare' (workfare) policies objectively for the first time. It considers well-publicised schemes from the United States alongside more overlooked examples of workfare in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, The Netherlands and Norway.
Description based upon print version of record.
'AN OFFER YOU CAN'T REFUSE'; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1. A new contract for social assistance; 2. Between subsidiarity and social assistance - the French republican route to activation; 3. Uneven development - local authorities and workfare in Germany; 4. Workfare in the Netherlands -young unemployed people and the Jobseeker's Employment Act; 5. National objectives and local implementation of workfare in Norway; 6. When all must be active - workfare in Denmark; 7. Steps to compulsion within British labour market policies
8. Making work for welfare in the United States9. Comparing workfare programmes - featuresand implications; 10. Discussion: workfare in the welfare state; Index
An offer you can't refuse' compares, in depth, international 'work-for-welfare' (workfare) policies objectively for the first time. It considers well-publicised schemes from the United States alongside more overlooked examples of workfare in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, The Netherlands and Norway.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Employment -- Law and legislation.
Unemployed -- Government policy.
Welfare recipients -- Employment.
Economic Theory
Business & Economics