The Marketisation of Welfare-To-Work in Ireland
governing activation at the street-level
$160.52
- Hardcover
190 pages
- Release Date
19 March 2023
Summary
From Welfare to Work: Ireland’s Market-Driven Transformation
This book assesses how the practice of contracting-out public employment services via competitive tendering and Payment-by-Results is transforming welfare-to-work in Ireland.
It offers Ireland’s introduction of a welfare-to-work market as a case study that speaks to wider international debates in social and public policy about the role of market governance in intensifying the turn towards more regu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781447367055 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1447367057 |
| Author: | Michael McGann |
| Publisher: | Bristol University Press |
| Imprint: | Policy Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 190 |
| Release Date: | 19 March 2023 |
| Weight: | 308g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm |
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Critics Review
“Michael McGann’s groundbreaking research offers critical and compelling insight into Ireland’s activation turn. It is equally salient and illuminating for advancing scholarship on the marketisation of public employment services at street level as ‘double activation’.” Fiona Dukelow, University College Cork
“McGann’s work is impressive both for the breadth and depth of scholarship and for the unique insights offered. Essential reading.” Joe Whelan, Trinity College, The University of Dublin
About The Author
Michael McGann
Michael McGann is Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
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