Policing the workshy : benefit controls, the labour market and the unemployed
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Policing the workshy : benefit controls, the labour market and the unemployed
（The Avebury business school library）
Avebury, c1992
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"Low Pay Unit, research trust"--Cover
Includes bibliographical references
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Description
Recent changes in social security legislation and in the organization of the Employment Service have sought to encourage the unemployed back to work by making it harder for them to claim benefits. Based on extensive interviews with claimants, staff in the Employment Service and the Department of Social Security, claimant advice agencies and many individual case examples, this book analyzes the effectiveness of the Social Security Act 1989 and the Employment Service. A wide range of employers have also been interviewed, many of whom have expressed their disquiet at the direction in which the Employment Service is going, and have shared with claimants the view that the new measures have been not only ineffective in achieving their aims but actually counterproductive. The findings and recommendations shold prove essential for any government whose aim it is to improve services to the unemployed and to help them back into work.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The Government's plans for the unemployed - the research: objectives, design and conduct
- brokerage in the labour market - the role of the employment service
- eligibility for income support and unemployment benefit after the Social Security Act 1989. Part 2 The effects on benefit after the Social Security Act 1989 - the statistics
- policies for the unemployed - the new framework
- the quality of decisions in the employment service
- the policies in action - how the regulations are applied in practice. Part 3 The effects on the labour market: the search for work
- the search for workers
- attitudes to taking work
- employing the unemployed
- regional variations. Part 4 Unemployment policies for the 1990s: the process of claiming benefits - conclusions and recommendations
- the effects on the labour market - conclusions and recommendations
- the claimants charter.
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