| In functional terms, workfare naturalizes and normalizes such job market conditions. |
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| Furthermore, forcing welfare recipients onto workfare has forced many young people to drop out of school or training programs. |
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| Despite the threat workfare poses to public-sector unions, Williams says the labor movement has been sluggish in responding to the issue. |
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| Welfare recipients are to face new coercive measures to force them into workfare or to accept cheap labor jobs. |
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| If workfare replaces welfare, wages will become more flexible enabling EU labor markets to absorb immigrants more efficiently. |
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| The key element in the Harris governments reforms was a mandatory workfare program for employable individuals. |
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| Therefore, he argues, it is a disguised form of workfare as it will require people to work before they get welfare benefits. |
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| If there is no effective screening to determine who requires workfare, those who do not need assistance may end up being the ones getting it. |
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| Soon after, the government proved it by signing some pretty Freudian contracts with workfare providers. |
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| Admittedly, in the case of workfare programs for single parents, entry into the labour force may not be voluntary. |
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| The New York City Workfare Media Initiative teaches welfare recipients and union workers how to use documentaries about workfare and welfare reform as organizing tools. |
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| It is important for employees to be associated in the sharing of a company's resources as well, on the basis of the workfare concept. |
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| In the opinion of these PEP researchers, an independent agency, not the executive branch of the government, should manage workfare funds. |
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| Modelled along the lines of US workfare programmes, the New Deal was initially targeted at the young unemployed aged 18 to 24 years and the long-term jobless. |
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| We've had crackpot workfare scheme after workfare scheme, but no progress has been made as a result. |
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| Shift from a workfare model to a human development model of social assistance. |
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| The Third New Deal in 1938 produced a massive return to workfare programs, which resumed economic progress. |
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| It amends the Ontario Works Act, 1997, the government's workfare legislation, and prohibits workfare participants from joining a union, bargaining collectively over terms and conditions, and striking. |
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| Mandatory workfare programs like Ontario Works have been abandoned in many jurisdictions, replaced by programs that invest in supports to lift people out of poverty. |
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| Any approach to providing incentives must ensure a strong commitment to the dignity and choices of families, and must exercise the utmost caution to ensure that it does not slip into workfare or forced labour. |
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| Most new policies were announced earlier and well received: another fuel duty freeze, deportation reform, workfare, expanding out-of-hours GP access. |
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| It is then only a short step to forcing people to receive CBT, often as part of a workfare program or on pain of losing their disability benefits. |
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| We know that generous public spending and social policy can be used to improve the skills of the labour force and to maximise quality employment more effectively than do workfare strategies. |
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| On the side of the carrots were some workfare programs which coupled the requirement to work with a range of supports to enable people to do so, with training, childcare and transportation being on most lists. |
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| In addition to summarizing general trends, the country case studies provide a wealth of information about the implementation of workfare. |
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| The Salvation Army has been criticized for making use of the UK Government's workfare schemes across Britain. |
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| So there was a lukewarm reception to his announcement on workfare despite the fact his party clearly love it. |
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| As was made clear during the debate in the council chamber, workfare doesn't help people find work, as several studies have shown, sometimes even hindering the process. |
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| Critics of the government initiative are calling it a workfare program. |
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| Workfare regimes are not monolithic systems, but dynamic configurations of restless reform, technocratic emulation, and tangled scalar relations. |
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| We are holding a rally as part of a National Day of Action against the Bedroom Tax, benefit sanctions and Workfare. |
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| If you are unemployed you are guaranteed at least 30 hours a week unwaged work, courtesy of Tories' Workfare schemes. |
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