Commentary. 'Work first': workfare and the regulation of contingent labour markets |
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Authors: | Peck J; Theodore N |
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Institution: | 1 School of Geography, Manchester University, Manchester M13 9Pl, UK
E-mail: jamie.peck@man.ac.uk
2 After 1 April 2000: Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Science Hall, 550 North Park St, Madison, WI 53706, USA
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
z Corresponding author |
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Abstract: | The paper presents a critical review of UK and US welfare-to-workstrategies, stressing their implications for changing formsof labour regulation. The favoured policy orientation - 'workfirst' - forcefully redistributes the risks and burdens of job-marketinstability from the state to unemployed individuals, the solutionto whose 'welfare dependency' is presented in terms of a one-waytransition into (low) waged work. At a systemic level, the analysissuggests that a regressive regulatory accommodation may be emergingbetween mandatory welfare-to-work programming on the one handand the lowest reaches of deregulated, 'flexible' labour marketson the other, as the destabilisation of welfare via work-activationmeasures creates a forced labour supply for contingent jobs. |
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Keywords: | Workfare Welfare-to-work programmes Labour-market policy Policy transfer Welfare reform |
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