On the margins of inclusion : changing labour markets and social exclusion in London / [electronic resource]
Smith, David M.(David Michael),1945-author.
This book offers an account of how groups of economically marginal people adapt and negotiate the offerings of a 'post industrial' labour market and a welfare system geared towards reintegrating them into formal employment. Through close ethnographic study, it highlights collective strategies and responses to labour and welfare changes.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-236) and index.
Cover; ON THE MARGINS OF INCLUSION -- Changing labour markets and social exclusion in London; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; ONE -- Introduction; TWO -- Globalisation and social exclusion; THREE -- Poverty and social exclusion: theory and policy; FOUR -- Life and labour on the St. Helier estate, 1930-2000; FIVE -- Labour market opportunities and welfare-to-work; SIX -- Lone-parent households; SEVEN -- Informal opportunities and social divisions; EIGHT -- Labour markets, exclusion and social capital; NINE -- On the margins of inclusion; References; Index.
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This book offers an account of how groups of economically marginal people adapt and negotiate the offerings of a 'post industrial' labour market and a welfare system geared towards reintegrating them into formal employment. Through close ethnographic study, it highlights collective strategies and responses to labour and welfare changes.
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