| Work: Personal Lives and Social Policy Contributor(s): Mooney, Gerry (Author) |
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ISBN: 1861345208 ISBN-13: 9781861345202 Publisher: Policy Press OUR PRICE: $45.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2004 Annotation: This book discusses the ways in which work is understood and conceptualized in social policy and in relation to welfare. Particular attention is paid to New Labour discourses that make work the answer to social problems and construct the ideal citizen as a worker. The changing patterns of work, unemployment, hidden and informal work are highlighted with attention being paid to the increasing divide between work rich and work poor. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - General - Political Science | Public Affairs & Administration - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Dewey: 306.36 |
| Series: Personal Lives and Social Policy |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 7.3" W x 9.6" (0.95 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches, the authors explore questions that are central to our understanding of how the personal not only is shaped in and through work, but also contributes to social relations at work. Among the issues considered are: that emotional labour is increasingly central to the labour process of welfare work; the changing relationship between ageing, work and personal lives; the ways through which welfare-to-work policies seek to regulate personal lives. The book seeks to further our understanding of the complex links between social policy and work in its different forms as well as highlighting that the dominant discourses of work have developed around particular constructions of how personal lives should be ordered. It is one in an innovative series - Personal Lives and Social Policy - published by The Open University and The Policy Press. The series comprises four interactive texts that successfully weave together new and challenging questions about the study of social policy with a range of teaching resources to support the development of the reader's own knowledge and understanding. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mooney, Gerry: - Gerry Mooney is a senior lecturer in social policy and criminology in the faculty of social sciences at Open University. |
