an article by David McCollum (affiliation(s) not provided) published in Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Volume 20 Number 2 (June 2012)
Abstract
Employment policies have conventionally focused on the transition from welfare to work. However, many of those who leave out-of-work benefits for employment return to them again relatively quickly, meaning that some people cycle between work and welfare for much of their working lives.
This article draws on 130 semi-structured interviews with work-welfare “cyclers”, service providers and employers in Glasgow and Dundee, Scotland, to investigate the causes of these detrimental transitions.
An argument is developed which contends that “bad” attitudes to paid work and “bad” types of such work to varying degrees lie behind this form of labour market disadvantage.
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Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Monday, 9 January 2012
‘An acceptance that it’s just your lot, I suppose’: reflections on turbulent transitions between work and welfare
an article by e David McCollum published in People, Place & Policy Online Volume 5 Issue 3 (2011)
Summary
Employment policies have conventionally focused on the transition from welfare to work. However, many of those who leave out-of-work benefits for employment return to them again relatively quickly, meaning that some people perpetually cycle between work and welfare for much of their working lives.
This article focuses on the individuals making these precarious labour market transitions and on the narratives that they use when reflecting on them. A broad agency-structure analytical framework is used to demonstrate the role of individual and more ‘involuntary’ structural factors in the production and reproduction of economic marginalisation. These findings have implications for the extent to which ‘bad jobs’ and ‘bad workers’ are viewed as determinants of labour market disadvantage and for how policies to combat work-welfare cycling are formulated and critiqued.
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Summary
Employment policies have conventionally focused on the transition from welfare to work. However, many of those who leave out-of-work benefits for employment return to them again relatively quickly, meaning that some people perpetually cycle between work and welfare for much of their working lives.
This article focuses on the individuals making these precarious labour market transitions and on the narratives that they use when reflecting on them. A broad agency-structure analytical framework is used to demonstrate the role of individual and more ‘involuntary’ structural factors in the production and reproduction of economic marginalisation. These findings have implications for the extent to which ‘bad jobs’ and ‘bad workers’ are viewed as determinants of labour market disadvantage and for how policies to combat work-welfare cycling are formulated and critiqued.
Full text: HTML and PDF (12pp)
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