Douglas Voigt is an Associate Fellow at the Post-Growth Societies College at Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany.

Ambitious conceptually, innovative methodologically, and compelling empirically, Douglas Voigt's book is a must-read for anybody interested in the normative commitments inherent to both welfare/workfare regimes and welfare/workfare scholarship. Voigt delivers a convincing critique of the social investment paradigm in scholarly and 'real world' terms, forcing us to think anew about what we mean by 'social justice' and why that matters.

• Introduction: Normative Theory and Empirical Research1. Defining the Hartz RegimePart I: How Can We Analyse Labour Market Institutions with a Theory of Social Justice? 2. Theories of Justice and Comparative Political Economy3. Social Justice between System and Lifeworld / 4. Social Justice in Contemporary Labour MarketsPart II: Is the Hartz Regime Socially Just?5. Bringing System and Lifeworld into Methodology6. From Lifeworld to System: Action Orientations and Labour Market Integration in the Hartz Regime7. From System to Lifeworld: Normative Constraints and Instrumental Reasoning in the Social Structure of German Capitalism8. Theory Reconstruction for the Comparative Analysis of Social JusticeConclusion

Douglas Voigt is an Associate Fellow at the Post-Growth Societies College at Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany.

Ambitious conceptually, innovative methodologically, and compelling empirically, Douglas Voigt's book is a must-read for anybody interested in the normative commitments inherent to both welfare/workfare regimes and welfare/workfare scholarship. Voigt delivers a convincing critique of the social investment paradigm in scholarly and 'real world' terms, forcing us to think anew about what we mean by 'social justice' and why that matters.

• Introduction: Normative Theory and Empirical Research1. Defining the Hartz RegimePart I: How Can We Analyse Labour Market Institutions with a Theory of Social Justice? 2. Theories of Justice and Comparative Political Economy3. Social Justice between System and Lifeworld / 4. Social Justice in Contemporary Labour MarketsPart II: Is the Hartz Regime Socially Just?5. Bringing System and Lifeworld into Methodology6. From Lifeworld to System: Action Orientations and Labour Market Integration in the Hartz Regime7. From System to Lifeworld: Normative Constraints and Instrumental Reasoning in the Social Structure of German Capitalism8. Theory Reconstruction for the Comparative Analysis of Social JusticeConclusion

Douglas Voigt is an Associate Fellow at the Post-Growth Societies College at Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany.

Ambitious conceptually, innovative methodologically, and compelling empirically, Douglas Voigt's book is a must-read for anybody interested in the normative commitments inherent to both welfare/workfare regimes and welfare/workfare scholarship. Voigt delivers a convincing critique of the social investment paradigm in scholarly and 'real world' terms, forcing us to think anew about what we mean by 'social justice' and why that matters.

• Introduction: Normative Theory and Empirical Research1. Defining the Hartz RegimePart I: How Can We Analyse Labour Market Institutions with a Theory of Social Justice? 2. Theories of Justice and Comparative Political Economy3. Social Justice between System and Lifeworld / 4. Social Justice in Contemporary Labour MarketsPart II: Is the Hartz Regime Socially Just?5. Bringing System and Lifeworld into Methodology6. From Lifeworld to System: Action Orientations and Labour Market Integration in the Hartz Regime7. From System to Lifeworld: Normative Constraints and Instrumental Reasoning in the Social Structure of German Capitalism8. Theory Reconstruction for the Comparative Analysis of Social JusticeConclusion