Workfare as welfare: Governing unemployment in the advanced liberal state

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 374-401

  McDonald, Catherine ^a   Marston, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Case management; Employment services; Governmentality; The Job Network

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LABOR POLICY; LIBERALISM; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 23844467498     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018305054077     Document Type: Article

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