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Introduction Introduction
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Labour market activation policy Labour market activation policy
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Welfare conditionality policy Welfare conditionality policy
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The impact of welfare conditionality and disciplinary administrative sanctioning The impact of welfare conditionality and disciplinary administrative sanctioning
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In-work poverty and ‘corporate’ welfare In-work poverty and ‘corporate’ welfare
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The activation of lone parents: case study The activation of lone parents: case study
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The pursuit of welfare fraud The pursuit of welfare fraud
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Welfare ‘fraud’ and the advance of the digital welfare state Welfare ‘fraud’ and the advance of the digital welfare state
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Culturalising Poverty: the Subjectification and Stigmatisation of Welfare Recipients Culturalising Poverty: the Subjectification and Stigmatisation of Welfare Recipients
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A new welfare imaginary? A new welfare imaginary?
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Note Note
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3 Disciplining the Poor: Welfare Conditionality, Labour Market Activation and Welfare ‘Fraud’
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Published:November 2021
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Abstract
Chapter three focuses on projects of welfare reform, which have gained momentum over the last few decades in different country contexts. This chapter shows how unemployment and poverty are primarily constructed as ‘lifestyle’ problems, to be addressed through employment incentives and the ‘disciplinary turn’ in activation. The chapter takes note that at the same time as projects of welfare reform have gained momentum, governments have concentrated their attention on detecting and clamping down on benefit fraud as a means of identifying the ‘undeserving’ and stoking anti-welfarism. The longstanding history of criminalising the poor is acknowledged, but the particular shape this is taking in recent years across different social and cultural spheres is given consideration. With a focus on recent positive developments in Scotland, the case for a new welfare imaginary is asserted.
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