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The Marketization of Employment Services: The Dilemmas of Europe's Work-first Welfare States by Karen N. Breidahl, Flemming Larsen, Matthias Knuth, Ian Greer (Hardcover, 2017)
Across Europe, market mechanisms are spreading into areas where they did not exist before. In public administration, market governance is displacing other ways of coordinating public services. In social policy, the welfare state is retreating from its historic task of protecting citizens from the discipline of the market. In industrial relations, labor and management are negotiating with an eye to competitiveness, often against new non-union market players.What is marketization, and what are its effects? This book uses employment services in Denmark, Germany, and Great Britain as a window to explore the rise of market mechanisms. Based on more than 100 interviews with funders, managers, front-line workers, and others, the authors discuss the internal workings of these markets and the organizations that provide the services.This book gives readers new tools to analyse market competition and its effects. It provides a new conceptualization of the markets themselves, the dilemmas and tradeoffs that they generate, and the differing services and workplaces that result. It is aimed at students and researchers in the applied fields of social policy, public administration, and employment relations and has important implications for comparative political economy and welfare states.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780198785446
eBay Product ID (ePID)
236774184
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Organizational Sociology
Author
Karen N. Breidahl, Flemming Larsen, Matthias Knuth, Ian Greer
Publication Name
The Marketization of Employment Services: the Dilemmas of Europe's Work-First Welfare States
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Economics, Law, Government
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
214 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
241mm
Item Width
162mm
Item Weight
494g
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Title_Author
Flemming Larsen, Karen N. Breidahl, Matthias Knuth, Ian Greer