Carpenter, Mick and Belinda Freda and Stuart Speeden, eds., "Beyond the workfare state: Labour markets, equality and human rights" (2007)

Beyond The Workfare State: Labour Markets, Equality And Human Rights

Beyond The Workfare State: Labour Markets, Equality And Human Rights

1. Introduction: towards a better workfare state, or one beyond it? (Mick Carpenter, Stuart Speeden and Belinda Freda)

Part one: Case studies in labour marlet discrimination and inequalities
2. Beyond the ghost town? The 'promising practices' of community-based initiatives in Coventry (Mick Carpenter, Barbara Merrill, Phil Cleaver and Inga Šniukaitė)
3. "It's about having a life, isn't it?" Employability, discrimination and disabled people (Debby Watson, Val Williams and Claire Wickham)
4. Between work and tradition: minority ethnic women in North West England (Stuart Speeden)
5. Discrimination and geographical exclusion: a case study of North West Wales (Brec'hed Piette and Rhian McCarthy)
6. Out of the picture? Sexual orientation and labour market discrimination (Anne Bellis with Teresa Cairns and Susan McGrath)
7. Youth discrimination and labour market access: from transitions to capabilities? (Mick Carpenter and Belinda Freda)
8. Employability in the third age: a qualitative study of older people in the Glasgow labout market (Pamela Clayton)
9. Refugees and the labour market: refugee sector practice in the 'employability' paradigm (Azar Sheibani)

Part Two: Implications for wider policies
10. Origins and effects of New Labour's workfare state: modernising or variations on old themes? (Mick Carpenter with Stuart Speeden)
11. Capabilities, human rights and the challenge to workfare (Mick Carpenter and Stuart Speeden with Colin Griffin and Nick Walters)