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