The Politics of Unemployment Policy in Britain
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The Politics of Unemployment Policy in Britain

Class Struggle, Labour Market Restructuring and Welfare Reform

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Politics of Unemployment Policy in Britain

Class Struggle, Labour Market Restructuring and Welfare Reform

About this book

This book provides an account of the evolution of social security and employment policy and governance in Britain between 1973 and 2023. It explains how this remaking of policy and governance shaped, and was shaped by, the transformation of the labour market and power of claimants and workers.

Advancing a class-centred explanation, the text situates contemporary working age active labour market policy as the contingent outcome of a long struggle over curtailment of labour autonomy and the challenges arising from policy 'success' for securing social cohesion, state legitimacy and better economic conditions for growth.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of figures and tables
  6. About the author
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 Labour commodification, the state and class politics
  10. 3 Labour market restructuring and the changing composition of labour
  11. 4 Labour autonomy, conciliation and the emergence of Special Employment Measures: 1973–79
  12. 5 Decomposition, disorder and policy transition: 1979–85
  13. 6 The end of conciliation and concertation: dis-embedding labour: 1985–89
  14. 7 On the offensive – enterprise, employability and exclusive activation: 1989–97
  15. 8 Inclusive employability and the progressive market-liberal turn: 1997–2004
  16. 9 Disciplinary inclusion and extensive labour utilisation: 2005–10
  17. 10 Austerity and the imposition of work discipline: 2010–16
  18. 11 Consolidation and continuity in the shadow of crisis: 2016–23
  19. 12 Concluding remarks
  20. Appendix
  21. Notes
  22. References
  23. Index