Description In Bureaucratic Manoeuvres, John Grundy examines profound transformations in the governance of unemployment in Canada.
Drawing on untapped government records, it sheds much-needed light on internal Bureaucratic struggles over the direction of labour market policy in Canada and makes a key contribution to Canadian political science, economics, public administration, and sociology..
Tracing a behind-the-scenes history of public employment services in Canada, Bureaucratic Manoeuvres shows just how difficult it has been for administrators and frontline staff to govern unemployment as a problem of individual employability.
While policy makers previously approached unemployment as a social and economic problem to be addressed through macroeconomic policies, recent labour market policy reforms have placed much more emphasis on the supposedly deficient employability of the Unemployed themselves, a troubling shift that deserves close, critical attention.
Description In Bureaucratic Manoeuvres, John Grundy examines profound transformations in the governance of unemployment in Canada
