'Work first': workfare and the regulation of contingent labour markets

Article Abstract:

UK and US welfare-to-work strategies are critically review, emphasizing their implications for changing types of labour regulation. The favoured policy orientation of work first, makes a forceful redistribution of the risks and burdens of job-market instability from state to the unemployed. A regressive regulatory accommodation between mandatory welfare-to-work programs and flexible labour markets may be emerging.

Research, Labor market

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Flexible recession: the temporary staffing industry and mediated work in the United States

Article Abstract:

The emergence of temporary employment agencies as mediators of flexible labour contracts in the United States is examined. The creation of temporary jobs during the recession of 2001 and the jobless recovery of the United States' labour markets during the employment slowdown between the years 2000 and 2004 are described.

United States, Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Employment Placement Agencies, Employment Agencies, Personnel Supply Services, Employment Services, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Growth, Job creation, Company growth

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Beyond 'employability.'

Article Abstract:

The impact of British welfare-to-work measures on the economy as a whole are examined, and some changes are suggested.

Administration of Human Resource Programs (except Education, Public Health, and Veterans' Affairs Programs), Income Security, United Kingdom, Economic policy, Domestic economic assistance, Manpower policy, Welfare state

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