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TY - JOUR
T1 - Personalised conditionality: observations on active proletarianisation in late modern Britain
AU - Grover, Christopher
PY - 2012/6
Y1 - 2012/6
N2 - This paper examines the development of the idea ‘personalised conditionality’ in social security policy in Britain through the report, Realising Potential, commissioned by the last of the 1997-2010 Labour governments and the documents and policies of the coalition government formed after the 2010 general election. Using the idea of active proletarianisation from Offe (1984), the paper argues that ‘personalised conditionality’ is part of a long and ignoble policy tradition that has criminalised workless people and held them responsible for their lack of work as a means of discouraging worklessness and forms of subsistence outside of paid work. The tensions in such a policy are discussed and it is concluded that the consequence of ‘personalised conditionality’ may be to detach increasing numbers of people from labour markets, rather than active proletarianisation.
AB - This paper examines the development of the idea ‘personalised conditionality’ in social security policy in Britain through the report, Realising Potential, commissioned by the last of the 1997-2010 Labour governments and the documents and policies of the coalition government formed after the 2010 general election. Using the idea of active proletarianisation from Offe (1984), the paper argues that ‘personalised conditionality’ is part of a long and ignoble policy tradition that has criminalised workless people and held them responsible for their lack of work as a means of discouraging worklessness and forms of subsistence outside of paid work. The tensions in such a policy are discussed and it is concluded that the consequence of ‘personalised conditionality’ may be to detach increasing numbers of people from labour markets, rather than active proletarianisation.
KW - active proletarianisation
KW - coalition government
KW - conditionality
KW - personalisation
KW - Realising Potential
U2 - 10.1177/0309816812437923
DO - 10.1177/0309816812437923
M3 - Journal article
VL - 36
SP - 283
EP - 301
JO - Capital and Class
JF - Capital and Class
SN - 0309-8168
IS - 2
ER -