Remaking the relations of work and welfare
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Learn how ‘welfare to work’ programs like the New Deal shape personal lives. This free course explores theoretical perspectives and real-life case studies, examining the impact of workfare programs on welfare subjects. Gain insights into the changing relations between work and welfare and evaluate the effects of these programs.
How do ‘welfare to work’ programmes such as the New Deal take into account and shape people’s personal lives? This free course, Remaking the relations of work and welfare, looks at how participation in, and drop-out from, ‘workfare’ programmes are interpreted within different theoretical perspectives, and uses two case studies to connect the theory with the reality of people’s lives.
Course 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.
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