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Buying and selling the poor : inside Australia's privatised welfare-to-work market / Siobhan O'Sullivan, Michael McGann and Mark Considine.

Buying and selling the poor : inside Australia's privatised welfare-to-work market / Siobhan O'Sullivan, Michael McGann and Mark Considine.
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ISBN 9781743327869
Author O'Sullivan, Siobhan (author)
Title Buying and selling the poor : inside Australia's privatised welfare-to-work market / Siobhan O'Sullivan, Michael McGann and Mark Considine.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Sydney, NSW : Sydney University Press, [2021]
©2021.
Description xx, 256 pages ; 21 cm.
Series Public and social policy series
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Buying and Selling the Poor ventures behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar welfare-to-work system, offering new insights into how Australia responds to unemployment and disadvantage. As the authors tell the story of four local employment offices, they paint a vivid picture of a critically important social service which many people are aware of but which few properly understand. They also reveal the wider impacts that processes of marketisation and welfare reform have had on these frontline services over decades, and how the work of frontline staff and service providers has been transformed. Buying and Selling the Poor looks closely at how these services operate, why some succeed where others fail, and what can be learned from the stories of staff and clients who have navigated the system. Three decades into this market experiment, how well are we doing in supporting our most vulnerable citizens to get back to work?
Subjects Public welfare -- Australia
Unemployment -- Australia
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons McGann, Michael (author)
Considine, Mark (author)
Series Public and social policy series
Call number 2021.342
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