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Why have both Great Britain and the United States been unable to create effective training and work programmes for the unemployed? The author contends that the answer lies in the liberal political origins of these programmes. Integrating documentary materials with an analysis of the sources of political support for work-welfare programs, King shows that policy-makers in both Great Britain and the United States have tried to achieve conflicting goals through these programmes. The goal of work-welfare policy in both countries has been to provide financial aid, training and placement services for the unemployed. In order to muster support for these programmes, however, work-welfare programmes had to incorporate liberal requirements that they not interfere with private market forces, and that they prevent the "undeserving" from obtaining benefits. The attempt to integrate these incompatible functions is arguably the defining feature of British and American policies as well as the cause of their failure.

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• Full title: Actively Seeking Work?
• Subtitle: Politics of Unemployment and Welfare Policy in the United States and Great Britain
• Author: Desmond S. King
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348
• EAN: 9780226436227
• ISBN: 0226436225
• ID: 04546414
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 520 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 156 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. March 1995

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