Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of tables and figures vi
4. List of abbreviations vii
5. Series preface ix
6. Preface xi
7. Modelling
8. The active turn(s) 3
9. Tests, compromises and policy change 21
10. Cities of unemployment 35
11. Activation reforms
12. From looking backwards to forwards: unemployment insurance, France, 2000 65
13. Turning solutions into ‘structural’ problems: unemployment insurance, Denmark, 1992–93 91
14. Testing thresholds: social assistance, France, 2007–08 119
15. Intimate scandals: social assistance, Denmark, 2011–13 143
16. Patterns
17. Chemotherapy: the content of the moral economy of activation 173
18. Infinite testing: tests and critique in and below the public 187
19. References 201
20. Index 227