Beyond the workfare state: Labour markets, equalities and human rights - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1861348738 ISBN 13: 9781861348739

Publisher: Policy Press, 2007

Synopsis

Beyond the workfare state explores equality, discrimination and human rights in relation to employability and 'welfare-to-work' policies bringing together a wide and distinctive range of illustrative studies that gives voice to a variety of potentially marginalised groups.

About this title

About the Author

Mick Carpenter is a Reader in Social Policy in the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick. He has researched and published widely in health and social policy, and since the late 1990s been engaged in collaborative research and evaluation of efforts to tackle poverty and exclusion in Coventry.

Belinda Freda was Project Officer and researcher for SEQUAL project at the University of Surrey, investigating the exclusion, discrimination and employability of young people, refugee groups and discrimination and equality in the workplace. She now works at the University of Sussex.

Stuart Speeden is Reader and Head of the Centre for Policy Studies at Edge Hill University. His wide ranging policy related work includes developing the Local Government Equality Standard for England and Wales, and evaluative research for the Commission for Racial Equality.

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1861348738
• ISBN 13: 9781861348739
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Carpenter Mick, Freda Belinda, Speeden Stuart