Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• outline the ways in which the relations between work and welfare are made and remade in different places and at different times

• explain how these changing relations contribute to constituting welfare subjects

• describe how welfare provision that is connected to work affects the lives of different welfare subjects in different and unequal ways

• assess the relative influences and effects of the economic, developmental and social purposes of welfare programmes based on work

• identify appropriate evidence for assessing such programmes, and make a critical evaluation of it.