Beyond the Workfare State [electronic resource] : Labour Markets, Equalities and Human Rights
Carpenter, Mick.
Freda, Belinda.
Speeden, Stuart.
Bristol : Policy,
2007.
Beyond the workfare state explores equality, discrimination and human rights in relation to employability and 'welfare-to-work' policies bringing together a wide and distinctive range of illustrative studies that gives voice to a variety of potentially marginalised groups.
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Beyond the workfare state; List of tables and figures; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction: towards a better workfare state, or one beyond it?; 2. Beyond the ghost town? The 'promising practices' of community-based initiatives in Coventry; 3. "It's about having a life, isn't it?": employability, discrimination and disabled people; 4. Between work and tradition: minority ethnic women in North West England; 5. Discrimination and geographical exclusion: a case study of North West Wales; 6. Out of the picture? Sexual orientation and labour market discrimination
7. Youth discrimination and labour market access: from transitions to capabilities?8. Employability in the third age: a qualitative study of older people in the Glasgow labour market; 9. Refugees and the labour market:refugee sector practice in the 'employability' paradigm; 10. Origins and effects of New Labour's workfare state:modernisation or variations on old themes?; 11. Capabilities, human rights and the challenge to workfare; Index
Beyond the workfare state explores equality, discrimination and human rights in relation to employability and 'welfare-to-work' policies bringing together a wide and distinctive range of illustrative studies that gives voice to a variety of potentially marginalised groups.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Age discrimination in employment.
Discrimination in employment.
Labor laws and legislation.
Sex discrimination in employment.
Discrimination in employment
Sex discrimination in employment
Age discrimination in employment
Labor laws and legislation
Labor market
Right to labor
Business & Economics
Labor & Workers' Economics