Bureaucratic Manoeuvres - The Contested Administration of the Unemployed

This book traces the dramatic transformation of public employment services for the unemployed in Canada in the final decades of the twentieth century.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Conceptualizing the Limits of Activation Policy
2. "More Than a Placement Service": The Transient High Modernism of "Manpower" Planning, 1965-76
3. Making and Unmaking Frontline Professionalism, 1977-90
4. Within Reach of the "What Works Best Solution": Evidence-Based Activation, 1994-2000
5. Toward a Culture of Results, 1996-2000
Conclusions
Appendix A: List of Acronyms
Appendix B: List of Interviews

About the author

John Grundy is Faculty Awards Specialist in the College of Engineering at Purdue University.

Summary

This book traces the dramatic transformation of public employment services for the unemployed in Canada in the final decades of the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: John Grundy
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781487504472
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0447-2
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy; Studies in Comparative Politic; Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy; Studies in Comparative Politic
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories