Remaking the relations of work and welfare

## 6 A short biography of Mandy: comparing theories about work and welfare

### 7 Workfare lives: evaluating theories

◄Previous: 6 A short biography of Mandy: comparing theories about work and welfare

# 7.1 Introduction

The theoretical interpretations in Section 6 of how NDYP ‘met’ Mandy's life offer important insights, but none provides a definitive interpretation – and all require evaluation that looks critically at their epistemological bases, internal coherence, resilience to contrary evidence and robustness against other theoretical positions. In this section, we can embark only on the briefest of evaluations, by taking the starting-points of each theory in turn and offering a critical voice from other theories.

◄Contents►Next: 7.2 The importance of the market and the state: neo-liberalism and neo-Marxism

OpenLearn - Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Except for third party materials and otherwise, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence, full copyright detail can be found in the acknowledgements section. Please see full copyright statement for details.