Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe Activating the Unemployed

Rik van Berkel, "Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe: Activating the Unemployed "
English | ISBN: 1138908371 | 2017 | 220 pages | EPUB | 716 KB
Welfare-to-work or activation policies refer to programmes aimed at promoting the employability, labour-market and social participation of benefit recipients of working age. Frontline workers delivering these policies are conceived of as policy implementers, as policy makers, and as actors mediating politics in an arena where conflicting interests are at stake. Frontline work plays a crucial role in determining what welfare-to-work practically means and how it affects the lives of the people it targets. Yet few books have deliberatively focused on comparing what happens when frontline workers, some of whom are professional social workers, meet clients.