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Promoting ‘Employ ability’: the changing subject of welfare reform in the UK

Stuart Connor School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 41-54 | Published online: 06 Jan 2010

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Aura Lehtonen. (2018) ‘Helping Workless Families’: Cultural Poverty and the Family in Austerity and Anti-welfare Discourse. Sociological Research Online 23:1, pages 84-99.
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Amanda Howard, Kylie Agllias, Leanne Schubert & Mel Gray. (2016) Hovering above the stream: Perception, experience and identity at the frontline of work with Australian unemployed clients. International Social Work 61:2, pages 219-233.
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Anthony Rafferty & Jay Wiggan. (2017) The Time-related Underemployment of Lone Parents during Welfare Reform, Recession and Austerity: A Challenge to In-work Conditionality?. Social Policy & Administration 51:3, pages 511-538.
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Tracey Jensen. (2014) Welfare Commonsense, Poverty Porn and Doxosophy. Sociological Research Online 19:3, pages 277-283.
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Brianna Turgeon, Tiffany Taylor & Laura M Niehaus. (2014) Contrasts and classtalk: A critical discourse analysis of welfare-to-work program managers. Discourse & Society 25:5, pages 656-671.
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Matthew Donoghue. (2012) Welfare and cohesion contested: A critical discourse analysis of New Labour's reform programme. British Politics 8:1, pages 79-100.
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Jay Wiggan. (2012) Telling stories of 21st century welfare: The UK Coalition government and the neo-liberal discourse of worklessness and dependency. Critical Social Policy 32:3, pages 383-405.
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S. Connor. (2011) Structure and agency: a debate for community development?. Community Development Journal 46:Supplement 2, pages ii97-ii110.
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