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082 _a361.6 OSU
100 1 _aO'Sullivan, Siobhan.
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245 1 0 _aBuying and Selling the Poor :
_bInside Australia's privatised welfare-to-work market /
_cSiobhan Sullivan, Michael McGann and Mark Considine
260 _aSydney, NSW :
_bSydney University Press,
_c2021.
300 _a284 p. ;
_c21 cm.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 _aPublic and Social Policy Series
501 _aMark Considine and Michael McGann both have worked in the Research & Policy Centre at the Brotherhood
505 _aPreface: On History, Poverty, and the Continuous Quest for Reform -- Introduction -- 1. The Politics of Managing the Poor -- 2. Thinking Inside the Box -- 3. Wilmore, the Heart of Australian Suburbia -- 4. ‘Welcome’ to Westgate -- 5. ‘Downtown’ Crompton -- 6. The Casual Cove -- Conclusion: Success and the Significance of Difference
520 _aBuying and Selling the Poor ventures behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar welfare-to-work system, offering new insights into how Australia responds to unemployment and disadvantage. As the authors tell the story of four local employment offices, they paint a vivid picture of a critically important social service which many people are aware of but which few properly understand. They also reveal the wider impacts that processes of marketisation and welfare reform have had on these frontline services over decades, and how the work of frontline staff and service providers has been transformed. Buying and Selling the Poor looks closely at how these services operate, why some succeed where others fail, and what can be learned from the stories of local staff and clients who have navigated the system. Three decades into this market experiment, how well are we doing in supporting our most vulnerable citizens to get back to work?
650 0 _925330
_aWelfare To Work
_zAustralia
650 4 _970
_aUnemployment
_zAustralia
650 0 _922517
_aDisadvantaged Groups
_zAustralia
650 4 _942
_aSocial Services
_zAustralia
653 _aSociology: Work & labour (Australia)
700 1 _aMcGann, Michael.
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700 1 _aConsidine, Mark.
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_cBOOK
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