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TY - JOUR
T1 - Privatizing employment services in Britain
AU - Grover, Christopher
PY - 2009/8
Y1 - 2009/8
N2 - This paper focuses upon the privatization of Britain’s employment services. It explores the extent to which the private sector is involved in the delivery of state-funded employment services, and the reasons why its involvement is to be extended in the future. The paper examines the catalyst – the Freud review of work-related social security policies – for extending private sector involvement in employment services before going on to critically engage with the privatization of such services. Here, the focus is upon ways in which such developments commodify nonemployed people by creating an economic value for them, and the amount and nature of paid work that will be available through such services. The paper argues that the privatization of employment services will be more advantageous to the private sector than it will be to non-employed people because it is essentially a conservative policy that will not address the barriers that people face in securing paid employment.
AB - This paper focuses upon the privatization of Britain’s employment services. It explores the extent to which the private sector is involved in the delivery of state-funded employment services, and the reasons why its involvement is to be extended in the future. The paper examines the catalyst – the Freud review of work-related social security policies – for extending private sector involvement in employment services before going on to critically engage with the privatization of such services. Here, the focus is upon ways in which such developments commodify nonemployed people by creating an economic value for them, and the amount and nature of paid work that will be available through such services. The paper argues that the privatization of employment services will be more advantageous to the private sector than it will be to non-employed people because it is essentially a conservative policy that will not address the barriers that people face in securing paid employment.
KW - commodification
KW - employment services
KW - inequality
KW - paid work
KW - privatization
U2 - 10.1177/0261018309105181
DO - 10.1177/0261018309105181
M3 - Journal article
VL - 29
SP - 487
EP - 509
JO - Critical Social Policy
JF - Critical Social Policy
SN - 0261-0183
IS - 3
ER -