Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe: Activating the Unemployed (Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy)
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (584 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073FPJYWF |
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| Number of Pages | : | 515 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Peter Kupka is a senior researcher at the Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany. His research interests are situated on the interface of social policy, public administration and public organization studies, and include welfare state transformations, implementing new models for the provision of social services, and processes of change in public organizations. Flemming Larsen is a professor at the Centre for Labour Market Research (CARMA), Aalborg University, Denmark. Dorte Caswell is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research focuses on social work under the canopy of active labour market and social policy. His research focuses on la
His research interests are situated on the interface of social policy, public administration and public organization studies, and include welfare state transformations, implementing new models for the provision of social services, and processes of change in public organizations. One major research topic has
Frontline work plays a crucial role in determining what welfare-to-work practically means and how it affects the lives of the people it targets. In trying to understand and interpret frontline practices in activation, each contribution provides insights into what ‘activation in practice’ looks like, what services are provided and how they are enacted. Welfare-to-work or activation policies refer to programmes aimed at promoting the employability, labour-market and social participation of benefit recipients of working age. Pioneering the provision of scholarly reflections on both theoretical and policy relevance of studying frontline practices of delivering activation, internationally renowned researchers present the first comparative analysis of how activation policies are actually delivered by frontline staff in selected EU countries and in the United States. Frontline workers delivering these policies are conceived of as policy implementers, as policy makers, and as actors mediating politics in an arena where conflicting interests are at stake. Yet few books have deliberatively focused on comparing what happens when frontline workers, some of whom are professional social workers, meet clients. This involves examining processes of client selection, monitoring, sanctioning and motiv