Contents

pp iii-iii

List of tables and figures

pp iv-iv

Notes on contributors

pp v-viii

one - Introduction: towards a better workfare state, or one beyond it?

pp 1-8

Part One - Case studies in labour market discrimination and inequalities

pp 9-10

two - Beyond the ghost town? The ‘promising practices’ of community-based initiatives in Coventry

pp 11-26

three - “It's about having a life, isn't it?”: employability, discrimination and disabled people

pp 27-42

four - Between work and tradition: minority ethnic women in North West England

pp 43-58

five - Discrimination and geographical exclusion: a case study of North West Wales

pp 59-72

six - Out of the picture? Sexual orientation and labour market discrimination

pp 73-86

seven - Youth discrimination and labour market access: from transitions to capabilities?

pp 87-100

eight - Employability in the third age: a qualitative study of older people in the Glasgow labour market

pp 101-114

nine - Refugees and the labour market: refugee sector practice in the ‘employability’ paradigm

pp 115-130

Part Two - Implications for wider policies

pp 131-132

ten - Origins and effects of New Labour’s workfare state: modernisation or variations on old themes?

pp 133-158

eleven - Capabilities, human rights and the challenge to workfare

pp 159-184

Index

pp 185-192