Remaking the relations of work and welfare

How do 'welfare to work' programmes such as the New Deal take into account and shape people's personal lives? This free course, Remaking the relations of work and welfare, looks at how participation in, and drop-out from, 'workfare' programmes are interpreted within different theoretical perspectives, and uses two case studies to connect the theory with the reality of people's lives.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 Welfare, work and social policy: an overview
• 1 Welfare, work and social policy: an overview
• 2 The contingent relations of welfare and work: from workhouse to workfare?
• 2 The contingent relations of welfare and work: from workhouse to workfare?
• 2.1 Background and historical overview
• 2.2 Rationales for conditional entitlement to welfare
• 3 Personal agency, participation and refusal: gathering evidence
• 3 Personal agency, participation and refusal: gathering evidence
• 4 An auditor reports
• 4 An auditor reports
• 4.1 Looking at the evidence
• 4.2 Neo-liberal interpretations of welfare to work
• 4.3 Neo-Marxist interpretations of welfare to work
• 4.4 Finding ‘the personal’ in policy: responses, refusals and resistances
• 5 Personal Advisers, personal lives
• 5 Personal Advisers, personal lives
• 6 A short biography of Mandy: comparing theories about work and welfare
• 6 A short biography of Mandy: comparing theories about work and welfare
• 7 Workfare lives: evaluating theories
• 7 Workfare lives: evaluating theories
• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 The importance of the market and the state: neo-liberalism and neo-Marxism
• 7.3 The importance of the individual and gender: post-structuralism and feminism
• 7.4 Conclusion
• 8 Further resources
• 8 Further resources
• References
• Acknowledgements