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Members of the list may be interested in the following book, just
published by The Policy Press:
'AN OFFER YOU CAN'T REFUSE': WORKFARE IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Edited by Ivar Lødemel, Fafo Institute for Applied Social Science, Oslo,
Norway and Heather Trickey, Centre for Research in Social Policy,
Loughborough University, UK
This book compares, in depth, international 'work-for-welfare'
(workfare) policies objectively for the first time. It considers
well-publicised schemes from the United States alongside more
overlooked examples of workfare in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany,
the Netherlands and Norway. Explanations for differences are discussed
and lessons for policy makers are considered. It is the first time that
details of workfare programmes have been collated in such an easily
accessible format.
Contents: Preface; A new contract for social assistance - Ivar Lødemel
and Heather Trickey; Between subsidiarity and social assistance - the
French republican route to activation - Bernard Enjolras, Jean Louis
Laville, Laurent Fraisse and Heather Trickey; Uneven development -
local authorities and workfare in Germany - Wolfgang Voges, Herbert
Jacobs and Heather Trickey; Workfare in the Netherlands - young
unemployed people and the Jobseeker's Employment Act - Henk Spies and
Rik van Berkel; National objectives and local implementation of
workfare in Norway - Ivar Lødemel; When all must be active - workfare
in Denmark - Anders Rosdahl and Hanne Weise; Steps to compulsion within
British labour market policies - Heather Trickey and Robert Walker;
Making work for welfare in the United States - Michael Wiseman;
Comparing workfare programmes - features and implications - Heather
Trickey; Discussion - workfare in the welfare state - Ivar Lødemel.
Paperback £17.99 ISBN 1 86134 195 4
Hardback £45.00 ISBN 1 86134 196 2
216 x 148mm 384 pages January 2001
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Canada. The North American edition is due to be published by the Urban
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