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Some Useful Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2019

Michael McGann and
Sophie Danneris
Michael McGann
Affiliation:
School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne E-mail: mmcgann@unimelb.edu.au
Sophie Danneris
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University E-mail: sophiedj@socsci.aau.dk
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Themed Section: Rethinking Welfare-to-Work for the Long-Term Unemployed
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Social Policy and Society , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , October 2019, pp. 659 - 662
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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

The literature on welfare reform, conditionality and activation is large and continuously growing. It spans a multiplicity of disciplines, including sociology, social policy, social work, and political science. Below is a selection of key readings and resources, organised thematically. This includes overviews of the intensification of conditionality and contractualisation of social citizenship; literature on the rise of New Paternalism in social policy; and key readings on managerial and governance reforms in the delivery of welfare-to-work. We have also included a selection of empirical studies on people’s experiences of conditionality and participation in welfare-to-work, as well as frontline studies of the streel-level delivery of activation. There are necessarily significant overlaps between theses literatures: for instance, between the literatures on the intensification of welfare conditionality and the New Paternalism in social policy; and, especially, between the literatures on governance reforms and the frontline delivery of activation.

References

On conditionality, welfare reform and social citizenship

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Studies on street level organisations and the delivery of welfare-to-work

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