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    Introduction: Rethinking welfare-to-work for the long-term unemployed

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    McGann, M; Danneris, S; O’Sullivan, S
    Date
    2019
    Source Title
    Social Policy and Society
    Publisher
    Cambridge University Press (CUP)
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    McGann, Michael
    Affiliation
    School of Social and Political Sciences
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    Journal Article
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    McGann, M., Danneris, S. & O’Sullivan, S. (2019). Introduction: Rethinking welfare-to-work for the long-term unemployed. Social Policy and Society, 18 (4), pp.577-582. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746419000265.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/222449
    DOI
    10.1017/S1474746419000265
    Abstract
    Welfare reforms across OECD countries have seen social citizenship rights contractualisedandincreasinglyrepurposedascommodifying ‘tool[s]ofgovernance’ (Patrick,2017: 293) designed to reconfigure people from ‘passive’ benefit recipients into ‘active’ labour market participants. But despite a significant expansion in the groups of citizens targeted for ‘activation’, countries have persistently struggled to support the labour market (re)integration of social groups at risk of long-term unemployment: variously referred to in the social policy literature as social security recipients who are ‘vulnerable’ (Andersen et al., 2017), ‘harder-to-help’ (Whitworth and Carter, 2014: 111), or have ‘multiple problems and needs’ (Dean, 2003). This themed section brings together contributions from a network of international scholars researching the frontline of welfare reform to examine the ways in which contemporary activation and employability policies impact, and are experienced by...

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