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Labour market policy in the crisis: the UK in comparative perspective
- Author:
- CLEGG Daniel
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 18(1), February 2010, pp.5-17.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article examines labour market policy measures adopted to counteract the effects of the current economic crisis, comparing the UK policy response to reactions of governments in other developed countries. It shows that, despite having entered the crisis with one of the least developed packages of policies to support unemployed people of any country, the UK has done unusually little to bolster provision in this field, despite the social and economic benefits that increased investment would bring. In the light of this, the article critically revisits the UK's status since the late 1990s as a labour market policy 'success story'.
JESP Symposium: the European Union's global social role
- Authors:
- ORBIE Jan, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 19(2), May 2009, pp.99-116.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This introductory article provides an overview of the EU's objectives and instruments in promoting the social dimension of globalization, illustrating its focus on international labour standards and the International Labour Organization (ILO), and the shift from trade measures to a broader spectrum of soft external policy instruments. More specifically, the horizontal and vertical coherence of the EU's international social policies is analysed. The three other contributions to this article elaborate on this distinction by examining the social dimension of the European Neighbourhood Policy, the `uploading' of the EU social model in the ILO, and the EU's promotion of corporate social responsibility in the world. These accounts suggest that market-enhancing goals often take priority over social objectives, and that the EU can at best be seen as a regional social power. In addition, the contributions point to the limitations of an ambitious EU role in this area.
Devolving the heartland: Making up a new social policy for the ‘South East’
- Author:
- COCHRANE J. Allan
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 26(3), August 2006, pp.685-696.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Devolution appears to challenge the traditional regional and national hierarchies of the UK, but in practice the dominance of the South East of England has been maintained through active state intervention. As social welfare has increasingly been redefined through economic success and access to the labour market, the focus of social policy has shifted accordingly. In this context the South East has been re-imagined not as a symbol of inequality and a potential source of redistribution, but rather as driver of economic prosperity and ‘national’ (UK) well-being.
Accession and social policy: the case of Hungary
- Authors:
- FERGE Zsuzsa, JUHASZ Gabor
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 14(3), August 2004, pp.233-251.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The EU started relatively late to inject social considerations into the enlargement process. A vision connected to the European Social Model could have been instrumental in handling the social problems emerging after the transition but did not play a basic role in shaping Hungarian social policy. Many factors and actors impacted on the changes that took place in social policy procedures and institutions. For instance, the ILO and the EU influenced labour market issues, while family policy was mostly shaped by home-bred ideologies, and to some extent the World Bank. Pension reform was fully steered by the World Bank. The EU had an important role in shaping social and civil dialogue. As the monitoring reports following the progress of the candidate countries show, the concerns of the EU remained economic and political. The reports approved the moves towards the neo-liberal model inspired by the monetarist agencies. This paper argues that the European impact in the social sphere has strengthened over recent years, and its main payoff is the growing interest and commitment of politics towards poverty and inclusion, and the widening practice of civil and social dialogue.
Local responses to long-term unemployment
- Authors:
- CAMPBELL Mike, SANDERSON Ian, WALTON Fiona
- Publisher:
- York Publishing Service/Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 63p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Reviews the research and evaluation evidence on why long term unemployed people do not get jobs, other than there being a shortage of work. Identifies the actions most likely to reconnect long term unemployed people to the labour market and proposes a policy framework and set of measures likely to make a difference.
Germany: community support framework 1994-1999: objective 3, combating long-term unemployment and facilitating the integration into working life of young people and of persons exposed to exclusion from the labour market
- Author:
- EUROPEAN COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- European Commission
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 108p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Luxembourg
Study of how Germany is tackling a deep recession accompanied by high unemployment, particularly among young people. Section 1 sets the general policy background throughout the country. Section 2 looks at the country region by region, providing data on socioeconomic background, labour market policy strategy and priorities for each area.
Rising unemployment, shrinking public welfare: Canadian and Australian comparisons. Implications for social work in the 1990s
- Author:
- RICHES Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 47(2), June 1994, pp.3-12.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Economic restructuring and rising unemployment are creating a new context for social work practice. No longer can it be assumed that adequately paid for employment will provide a foundation for rehabilitation and successful practice. The issues raised for social work are explored by examining the welfare policy and practice implications of the application of market ideology and increasing joblessness in Canada in the 1980s drawing parallels with economic and social welfare changes in Australia. The paper examines why social work has been slow to respond, why it should be responding, and what is to be done.
The social dimension of the European Union: en route to positively joint sovereignty?
- Author:
- LEIBFREID Stephan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 4(4), 1994, pp.239-262.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article outlines possible scenarios of Social Europe. First, the status quo of (fragile) welfare state sovereignty and autonomy in the Member States is outlines. Then the major reasons for the EU's difficult inheritance of a 'social dimension' is explored: namely, limping labour market integration - the only EU market that looks like a free trade zone - and its consequences for delicate European social integration. Without a common labour market chances for a bottom up social dimension are meagre. 'Single' and multiple scenarios for a development of Europe's Social Dimension are then fleshed out.
Work and welfare: tackling the jobs deficit
- Authors:
- BALLS Edward, GREGG Paul
- Publisher:
- Institute for Public Policy Research
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 75p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains 2 essays on work and welfare. The first looks at the official and the real extent of joblessness and probes the collapse in demand for unskilled male labour. The second argues that the distribution of jobs is as important as the overall number, identifying a growing trend of 'work rich' families, with 2 earners, and 'work poor' families, with none. Argues for labour market, training and social security reforms to counter this trend.
New directions in welfare? France, West Germany, Italy and Britain in the 1980s
- Author:
- CHAMBERLAYNE Prue
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 33, Winter 1991, pp.5-21.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Introduces debates about the future of welfare, particularly systems of income maintenance, and identifies two axes of debate: the first economic, concerned with responses to labour market restructuring, challenges to the insurance-assistance divide, and demands that 'care' be rewarded as 'work'; and secondly, concerning social relations of welfare - bureaucratisation, empowerment and strengthening the 'social'.