Pete Alcock, Christina Beatty, Stephen Fothergill

Work to Welfare

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores issues relating to the rapidly increasing number of men detached from the labour market.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780521002868
• ISBN-10: 0521002869
• Artikelnr.: 22151207

Autorenporträt

Pete Alcock is Professor of Social Policy and Administration at the University of Birmingham. He has published extensively on poverty, social exclusion and the benefits system.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. The Context for Labour Market Detachment: 1. The UK labour market
2. The international context
3. The benefits system
Part II. New Evidence from the UK: 4. The detached male workforce
5. Incapacity benefit and unemployment
6. The over 50s
7. Family, life course and labour market detachment
8. The role of health in labour market detachment
9. Getting by
10. Back to work?
Part III. The Policy Implications: 11. New roles, new deal
Appendix: Research methodology.