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The purgatorial ethic and the spirit of welfare
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In this paper, the authors try to understand the irrational rationality of Active Labour Market Policies adopted across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).Abstract:
Drawing on the Weberian spirit, our key problem is trying to understand the irrational rationality of Active Labour Market Policies adopted across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Dev...read more
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The archaeology of knowledge
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Affective and calculative solidarity: The impact of individualism and neoliberal capitalism:
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Activation in Ireland: An Evaluation of the National Employment Action Plan
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We have our dignity, yeah? Scrutiny under suspicion: Experiences of welfare conditionality in the Irish social protection system
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Life after debt: a critical analysis of the engagement/non-engagement of debtors with the insolvency service of Ireland
Abstract: The state established the Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI) in 2013 to respond to an arrears crisis involving almost 150,000 mortgages. The ISI’s strategy has focused upon teaching financial skills to insolvent debtors over a period of supervision lasting up to 6 years, after which some debt is written off. After five years of operation, the ISI has only approved 4,672 arrangements, despite the continuation of the mortgage arrears crisis (Insolvency Service of Ireland 2018). This thesis critically investigates this low uptake from a qualitative perspective, with a focus on the ISI’s applications process. 22 semi-structured interviews were conducted, 18 with debtors who wished to join a debt arrangement, and 4 with Personal Insolvency Practitioners (PIP’s), experts who administer the ISI’s arrangements. By interviewing these participants, my thesis accesses the beliefs, meanings, and contexts of these two groups, who are compared and contrasted throughout. My findings concentrate on the problematic nature of the applications process as a whole, disagreeing with the ISI’s own explanation that the dearth of applicants is due to a lack of awareness of the service (Insolvency Service of Ireland 2014a). I explore this application process in a step-by-step manner aided by governmentality theory, guiding the reader through the process as though they were applying for debt relief. Throughout I identify problems with this process as they emerge, such as class disgust, sexism and an interview between the debtor and the PIP that has the character of a confession. PIP’s emphasise the personal responsibility of debtors, and are opposed to debtors easily joining debt programmes, and I critically reflect on the implications of these personal responsibility discourses. This tends to result in feelings of embarrassment, shame and humiliation – leading my indebted participants to construct alternative means of coping in the absence of the ISI. Most common among these are (in)voluntary social exclusion, whereby debtors withdraw from social life, as they are ashamed that their friends and family will see the consequences of their financial situation, in addition to harsh budgeting and / or using charities. Regardless, my indebted participants are adamant that they cannot go through the humiliating process of applying again, and actively discourage other debtors from engaging with the service. I conclude my thesis by reflecting on the original problem that the ISI was supposed to solve: the mortgage arrears crisis. There remain tens of thousands of mortgage holders in arrears, whose mortgages are now steadily being sold to vulture funds. While mass repossessions remain politically untenable, it is now likely that the ISI’s ‘soft’ approach to debt relief will not work and the ‘hard’ approach of the funds will finally resolve the legacy debts of the economic boom and the crisis which followed it.
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The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Esping-Andersen distinguishes three major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different Western countries, and argues that current economic processes such as those moving toward a post-industrial order are shaped not by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences.
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The Archaeology of Knowledge.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define the Statement and the Archive and define the Enunciative Function 3. The Description of Staements 4. Contradictions 5. Change and Transformations 6. The Formation of Concepts 7. Conclusion Conclusion Index
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From Max Weber: Essays in sociology
TL;DR: A collection of Max Weber's key papers is presented in this article with a new preface by Professor Bryan S. Turner, who was one of the most prolific and influential sociologists of the twentieth century.
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The archaeology of knowledge
TL;DR: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now as mentioned in this paper, and book is the window to open the new world.