Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Welfare State and the Unwaged: Past, Present and Future -- 3 Globalisation, Welfare and Labour -- 4 The Role of the European Union -- 5 Benefi ts Enforcing Work -- 6 Flexploitation and the Unemployed -- 7 Labour Market Deregulation: Debates and...

This paper explores how the UK Time Use Survey (UKTUS), together with the author\'s qualitative interviews and focus groups with London parents, can inform current policy debates about childcare and parental employment. It also refers to the international literature about long-term trends in...

Performance management in TECs1 and urban initiatives has developed in the 1990s into a “contract culture†characterised by heavy reliance on quantitative indicators as the basis for funding arrangements. These indicators may have perverse effects. Firstly, they may distort the design...

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