Putting Workfare in Place Local Labour Markets and the New Deal [Hardcover]

This book is the first comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the New Deal and examines how far the programme has succeeded in responding to the diversity of conditions in local labour markets across the UK.

• Argues that profound differences in local labour market conditions have exerted a telling influence on the New Deal’s achievements
  
• Includes extensive new research data on the current conditions of local labour markets in the UK and local impacts of the New Deal
  
• Illustrated by a large series of original maps and figures.
  
• Based on numerous interviews with local and regional policy actors.

Series Editors' Preface vi

Preface vii

List of Tables ix

List of Figures xi

1 Locating the New Deal 1

2 The Geographies of Worklessness 26

3 Local Disparities in the Performance of Welfare-to-Work 59

4 Welfare-to-Work in Local Context 99

5 A Geography of Mismatch? Employers, Jobs and Training 127

6 Localising Welfare-to-Work? 155

7 Conclusions 183

Notes 208

Bibliography 212

Index 231

Not only examines how workfare has been put into place in the United Kingdom, but also puts the place into workfare.
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Putting Workfare in Place is a diligently researched and empirically rich account of the significant changes to Britain’s work-welfare regime. Policymakers need to be aware of how institutional spaces and labour market conditions interact to produce local knowledges and Sunley, Martin and Nativel provide us with cl#%