REDMAN, Jamie, FLETCHER, Del, WHITE, Richard and MCCARTHY, Lindsey (2022). 'You had to be the detective': implementing workfare in British employment services. Journal of Social Policy.
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Abstract
British employment service delivery has shifted towards a model primed on core ‘workfare’ objectives – that is, enforcing behavioural compliance to work-related duties and expanding participation in work. Nevertheless, significant gaps remain in current knowledge about how workfare is implemented daily by frontline staff. The existing international street-level research on employment service delivery reveals how workers use a range of discretionary practices to achieve workfare objectives. Yet this research largely ignores how, in practice, a key aspect of enforcing behavioural compliance and encouraging work participation is through contending with its opposite – behavioural non-compliance. Analysing 13 interviews with frontline staff, this article contributes to street-level knowledge by revealing the ways managers and workers in British employment services are encouraged to detect and correct variations of claimant non-compliance.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Political Science & Public Administration; 1605 Policy and Administration; 1607 Social Work; 2203 Philosophy |
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279422000733 |
SWORD Depositor: | Symplectic Elements |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Elements |
Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2022 15:49 |
Last Modified: | 15 Dec 2022 11:28 |
URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/30702 |
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