Bureaucratic Manoeuvres

The Contested Administration of the Unemployed

AvJohn Grundy

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Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

In Bureaucratic Manoeuvres, John Grundy examines profound transformations in the governance of unemployment in Canada. While policy makers previously approached unemployment as a social and economic problem to be addressed through macroeconomic policies, recent labour market policy reforms have placed much more emphasis on the supposedly deficient employability of the unemployed themselves, a troubling shift that deserves close, critical attention.

Tracing a behind-the-scenes history of public employment services in Canada, Bureaucratic Manoeuvres shows just how difficult it has been for administrators and frontline staff to govern unemployment as a problem of individual employability. Drawing on untapped government records, it sheds much-needed light on internal bureaucratic struggles over the direction of labour market policy in Canada and makes a key contribution to Canadian political science, economics, public administration, and sociology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-03-14
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:184
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781487530259
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
Serie:Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy

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John Grundy is Faculty Awards Specialist in the College of Engineering at Purdue University.

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"Grundy’s patient empiricism could be put to good use in classrooms to critically explore with students the circulation of particular orientations or sensibilities through institutions and cultures over time, and to bring home the importance of taking a long view on where we are within longer histories of problematization and intervention. The readability of the book also recommends it for classroom use. Overall, Bureaucratic Manoeuvers makes an important and interesting contribution to social and employment policy and related studies in the Canadian context, and to comparative policy studies more broadly. I highly recommend it."- Tina Wilson (Critical Social Policy)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1. Conceptualizing the Limits of Activation Policy2. "More Than a Placement Service": The Transient High Modernism of "Manpower" Planning, 1965–763. Making and Unmaking Frontline Professionalism, 1977–904. Within Reach of the "What Works Best Solution": Evidence-Based Activation, 1994–20005. Toward a Culture of Results, 1996–2000 ConclusionsAppendix A: List of Acronyms Appendix B: List of Interviews