Killing the golden goose? Third sector organizations and back-to-work programmes in Germany and the UK

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 209-225

  Aiken, Mike ^a   Bode, Ingo ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disadvantaged groups; Germany; Labour market policy; Managerialism; Third sector organizations; UK; Welfare pluralism; Work integration

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION; PUBLIC GOODS; TRAINING; WELFARE ECONOMICS; WORKING CONDITIONS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANSER;

EID: 65749109262     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: 14679515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2009.00658.x     Document Type: Article

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