Insertion as an alternative to workfare: active labour market schemes in the Parisian suburbs
Autor: | Graham Symon, Katia Iankova, Ian Greer, Charles Umney, Lisa Schulte |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Service delivery framework Corporate governance media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050209 industrial relations 1. No poverty General Social Sciences Conditionality Management Monitoring Policy and Law 0506 political science Active labour market policies Workfare Central government 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Economics Economic system Marketization Autonomy media_common |
ISSN: | 0958-9287 |
Popis: | Many governments have tightened the link between welfare and work by attaching conditionality to out-of-work benefits, extending these requirements to new client groups and imposing market competition and greater managerial control in service delivery – principles typically characterized as ‘workfare’. Based on field research in Seine-Saint-Denis, we examine French ‘ insertion’ schemes aimed at disadvantaged but potentially job-ready clients, characterized by weak conditionality, low marketization, strong professional autonomy and local network control. We show that insertion systems have resisted policy attempts to expand workfare-derived principles, reflecting street-level actors’ belief in the key advantages of the former over the latter. In contrast with arguments stressing institutional and cultural stickiness, our explanation for this resistance thus highlights the decentralized network governance of front-line services and the limits to central government power. |
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