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TY - JOUR
T1 - A commentary on resistance to the UK's Work Experience programme
T2 - capitalism, exploitation and wage work
AU - Grover, Chris
AU - Piggott, Linda
PY - 2013/8
Y1 - 2013/8
N2 - In this commentary we focus upon resistance to the UK’s Work Experience programme that aims to help the young unemployed secure paid employment. The programme hit the news headlines in February 2012 when the group, Right to Work, forced concessions from the UK’s Coalition government that removed sanctions for Work Experience conscripts who left their placement after a week. The paper critically engages with the Right to Work’s demand for ‘real jobs’, paying at least the minimum wage, suggesting that such demands are in danger of buttressing capitalist exploitation, rather than providing an alternative to it. The paper argues a more radical approach is required if the role of policies, such as Work Experience, in the societalization of capitalist accumulation is to be avoided.
AB - In this commentary we focus upon resistance to the UK’s Work Experience programme that aims to help the young unemployed secure paid employment. The programme hit the news headlines in February 2012 when the group, Right to Work, forced concessions from the UK’s Coalition government that removed sanctions for Work Experience conscripts who left their placement after a week. The paper critically engages with the Right to Work’s demand for ‘real jobs’, paying at least the minimum wage, suggesting that such demands are in danger of buttressing capitalist exploitation, rather than providing an alternative to it. The paper argues a more radical approach is required if the role of policies, such as Work Experience, in the societalization of capitalist accumulation is to be avoided.
KW - abolition
KW - employment schemes
KW - forced labour
KW - sanctions
U2 - 10.1177/0261018312468307
DO - 10.1177/0261018312468307
M3 - Journal article
VL - 33
SP - 554
EP - 563
JO - Critical Social Policy
JF - Critical Social Policy
SN - 0261-0183
IS - 3
ER -