Sorry - I can't resist
The PILOT was a genuinely innovative experiment which was expensive in
terms of time and staff resources. As a lot of the client group had
basic skills difficulties (ie over literacy), the investment in
training was substantial and empowering. The pilot was
entirely voluntary on the part of the client group.
The depressing story that PT's uncharacteristically acid comments may
have missed is that by the time the pilots went national almost all
these very positive aspects were junked in favour of a "traditional"
workfarist solution.
Adam
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:04:22 +0100 Paul Treanor <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Pete North wrote:
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> > The pilot round of Employment Zones was a seed bed for experimentation
> > in helping unemployed people back to work.
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> In junk jobs, which the children of the New Labour elite would never accept.
>
> I am not familiar with the politics of specific academic institutions in
> Britain, but judging by the website, the LEPU is a bastion of Blairite
> workfare and gentrification ideologists. Is this guess correct?
>
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> --
> Paul Treanor
>
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