The Politics of Unemployment Policy in Britain

Class Struggle, Labour Market Restructuring and Welfare Reform

Jay Wiggan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2026
Policy Press (Verlag)
9781447366126 (ISBN)

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This book provides an account of the evolution of social security and employment policy and governance in Britain between 1973 and 2023. It explains how this remaking of policy and governance shaped, and was shaped by, the transformation of the labour market and power of claimants and workers.

Advancing a class-centred explanation, the text situates contemporary working age active labour market policy as the contingent outcome of a long struggle over curtailment of labour autonomy and the challenges arising from policy ‘success’ for securing social cohesion, state legitimacy and better economic conditions for growth.

Jay Wiggan is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.

1. Introduction

2. Labour Commodification, the State and Class Politics

3. Labour Market Restructuring and the Changing Class Composition of Labour

4. Labour Autonomy, State Conciliation and the Emergence of Special Employment Measures: 1973 – 1979

5. A Cautious Offensive: Class Decomposition, Disorder and the Transitional Labour Market Policy Regime: 1979 – 1985

6. The End of Conciliation and Social Concertation: Dis-Embedding Labour 1985 – 1989

7. On the Offensive – Enterprise, Employability and Selective Activation: 1989–1997

8. Inclusive Employability, Consolidation and the Progressive Market Liberal Turn: 1997 – 2004

9. Disciplinary Inclusion and Extensive Labour Utilisation: 2005 – 2010

10. Austerity and the Imposition of Work Discipline: 2010–2016

11. Consolidation and Labour Market Policy Continuity in the Shadow of Crisis: 2016–2023

12. Concluding remarks

Erscheinungsdatum	10.12.2025
Zusatzinfo	7 Tables, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9781447366126 / 9781447366126
Zustand	Neuware