Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review"Not only examines how workfare has been put into place in the United Kingdom, but also puts the place into workfare."
—International Social Security Review
"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 compelling evidence to question national assumptions of socio-economic development."
—Martin Jones, Director of the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
"This book lays out a thoughtful assessment of the UK's New Deal program and the extent to which its underlying theory and ideology adequately reflect the geographies of unemployment. The authors do a masterful job, and policymakers, academics, policy advisers, and politicians will find this book both compelling and considered."
—Amy Glasmeier, E Willard Miller Professor of Economic Geography, The Pennsylvania State University
"A thought-provoking book, raising important questions about the impact of geography not only in shaping labour markets but also in conditioning the success of workfare policies .... An inspiration for further research into the local dimensions of worklessness."
—Michelle Baddeley, University of Cambridge
Table of ContentsSeries 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
