Active labour market policy and active citizenship? Experiences of universal credit claimants with Jobcentre Plus

Thesis

The last thirty years have seen marked changes to the social citizenship settlement in Britain. Social rights have become increasingly conditional on compliance with behavioural conditions formulated in meetings between benefit claimants and caseworkers in the public employment service. These changes have been legitimated by both Labour and Conservative governments by reframing social citizenship in terms of a communitarian morality whereby the duty to seek and take up waged employment pre...

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Authors: Leitch, AA

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-xkbgq4qmj
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: universal credit; labour market policy; active citizenship; social citizenship; lived experience; contractualism; welfare conditionality; communitarianism
• Subjects: Public welfare; Social sciences and state; Social sciences and ethics; Critical theory; Citizenship; Welfare recipients; Politics and government; Social policy