Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of tables and figures iv
4. Notes on contributors v
5. Introduction: towards a better workfare state, or one beyond it? 1
6. Case studies in labour market discrimination and inequalities
7. Beyond the ghost town? The ‘promising practices’ of community-based initiatives in Coventry 11
8. “It’s about having a life, isn’t it?”: employability, discrimination and disabled people 27
9. Between work and tradition: minority ethnic women in North West England 43
10. Discrimination and geographical exclusion: a case study of North West Wales 59
11. Out of the picture? Sexual orientation and labour market discrimination 73
12. Youth discrimination and labour market access: from transitions to capabilities? 87
13. Employability in the third age: a qualitative study of older people in the Glasgow labour market 101
14. Refugees and the labour market: refugee sector practice in the ‘employability’ paradigm 115
15. Implications for wider policies
16. Origins and effects of New Labour’s workfare state: modernisation or variations on old themes? 133
17. Capabilities, human rights and the challenge to workfare 159
18. Index 185