Magazine 45-46: The Unemployment Business

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It has almost become a self-evident truth that unemployment has been growing progressively over the last two decades, both in scale and in its significance for social and economic policy. How and why are often ignored but a vast industry to ‘manage’ this ‘crisis’ has developed. From flourishing private companies, such as A4e, contracted by the Department for Work and Pensions to deliver what Jobcentre Plus has apparently failed to achieve, through tens of subcontracted employment services providers, to a growing sector of so-called voluntary organisations that depend on this reserve army of unemployed people to source their ‘slave’ workforce. This double issue of the Corporate Watch Newsletter takes a look at this relatively new ‘unemployment business’; its protagonists, ideological, political and economic premises and how it is being utilised by the New Labour government to dismantle what’s left of the welfare state.

Contents:
  1. The Welfare Crisis

    By Corporate Watch

  2. Who benefits from the benefits system?

    By Corporate Watch

  3. Flexible deals

    By Corporate Watch

  4. Voluntarism or new slavery?

    By Corporate Watch

  5. CW’s guide to benefits newspeak

    By Corporate Watch

  6. Reclaiming welfare

    By Corporate Watch

  7. Captive labour

    By Corporate Watch

  8. Campaign spotlight: Hackney Unemployed Workers

    By Harry McGill and Anne-Marie O’Reilly

  9. Babylonian Times

    By Corporate Watch

  10. Editorial: The Unemployment Business

    By Corporate Watch

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