Buying and Selling the Poor

Inside Australia's Privatised Welfare-to-Work Market

Buying and Selling the Poor
Siobhan O'Sullivan, Michael McGann, Mark Considine
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1 Dec 2021 AU
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9781743327869
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Buying and Selling the Poor ventures behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar welfare-to-work system, offering new insights into how Australia responds to unemployment and disadvantage. As the authors tell the story of four local employment offices, they paint a vivid picture of a critically important social service which many people are aware of but which few properly understand. They also reveal the wider impacts that processes of marketisation and welfare reform have had on these frontline services over decades, and how the work of frontline staff and service providers has been transformed. Buying and Selling the Poor looks closely at how these services operate, why some succeed where others fail, and what can be learned from the stories of local staff and clients who have navigated the system. Three decades into this market experiment, how well are we doing in supporting our most vulnerable citizens to get back to work?
Siobhan O' Sullivan is a public policy scholar based at UNSW in Sydney. She has studied welfare-to-work in Australia, the UK and elsewhere, over many years. Michael McGann is Research Fellow in the Social Sciences Institute at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He specialises in the sociology of unemployment and the governance of activation, with a particular focus on the marketisation of public employment services. Mark Considine is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Melbourne.
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ISBN-13: 9781743327869
Published: 1 Dec 2021
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Sydney University Press
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm
Weight: 330g
Pages: 284

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