Remaking the relations of work and welfare
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## Contents

- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Welfare, work and social policy: an overview
- 2 The contingent relations of welfare and work: from workhouse to workfare?
  - 2.1 Background and historical overview
  - 2.2 Rationales for conditional entitlement to welfare
- 3 Personal agency, participation and refusal: gathering evidence
- 4 An auditor reports
  - 4.1 Looking at the evidence
  - 4.2 Neo-liberal interpretations of welfare to work
  - 4.3 Neo-Marxist interpretations of welfare to work
  - 4.4 Finding ‘the personal’ in policy: responses, refusals and resistances
- 5 Personal Advisers, personal lives
- 6 A short biography of Mandy: comparing theories about work and welfare
- 7 Workfare lives: evaluating theories
  - 7.1 Introduction
  - 7.2 The importance of the market and the state: neo-liberalism and neo-Marxism
  - 7.3 The importance of the individual and gender: post-structuralism and feminism
  - 7.4 Conclusion
- 8 Further resources
- Keep on learning
- References
- Acknowledgements

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