{"title":"Book Review: The Marketisation of Welfare to Work in Ireland: Governing Activation at the Street Level by Michael McGann","authors":"J. Wiggan","doi":"10.1177/02610183231190793","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"careers (Hansen and Lauridsen, 2004; Coderre-LaPalme, 2018). This may help to explain why marketization is a tool that not only disciplines front-line workers but also incentivises and/or disciplines some tiers of decision-making. Finally, this book inspires a way forward for successful resistance which involves finding and targeting the specific weaknesses of marketization initiatives and making ‘quiet’ politics ‘noisy’; this is crucial advice which should be taken up by anyone who cares about voice and democracy.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"747 - 749"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Critical Social Policy","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231190793","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"SOCIAL ISSUES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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careers (Hansen and Lauridsen, 2004; Coderre-LaPalme, 2018). This may help to explain why marketization is a tool that not only disciplines front-line workers but also incentivises and/or disciplines some tiers of decision-making. Finally, this book inspires a way forward for successful resistance which involves finding and targeting the specific weaknesses of marketization initiatives and making ‘quiet’ politics ‘noisy’; this is crucial advice which should be taken up by anyone who cares about voice and democracy.
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Critical Social Policy provides a forum for advocacy, analysis and debate on social policy issues. We publish critical perspectives which: ·acknowledge and reflect upon differences in political, economic, social and cultural power and upon the diversity of cultures and movements shaping social policy; ·re-think conventional approaches to securing rights, meeting needs and challenging inequalities and injustices; ·include perspectives, analyses and concerns of people and groups whose voices are unheard or underrepresented in policy-making; ·reflect lived experiences of users of existing benefits and services;