Welfare-to-work programmes in modern welfare states -- Welfare-to-work programmes under the Poor Laws -- Contemporary welfare-to-work programmes -- From equality to the right to welfare -- Welfare, work, and social inclusion

Welfare to work programmes aim to assist the long-term unemployed in finding work; increasing labour market flexibility, eliminating dependency, and tackling social exclusion. They have been implemented in many Western countries. This book focuses on an important and novel feature of these...

This article provides an analysis and a critique of the law governing the employment relationship between Israeli employers and Palestinian employees in industries operating in the West Bank. Through an analysis of Israeli jurisprudence it highlights the intersection among different areas of...

Increasingly, governments have put in place user charges for health and education services that were once provided free at the point of delivery. These charges may, potentially, alter the nature of these public services and, moreover, realign citizen-state relations into relationships that...

Against the background of heightened political tension, Israel is a unique laboratory for the study of conscientious objection in the workforce. The paper outlines the cases where such incidents have reached the courts, and offers a systematic analysis that explains the differences between them,...

This paper addresses four persistent legal and philosophical issues that imbue workfare, albeit usually not explicitly. First, forced labour is relatively common charge against workfare. If workfare is tantamount to forced labour, it cannot be justified, legally or morally. But to what extent do...