TY - BOOK ID - 48229909 TI - The moral economy of activation : ideas, politics and policies PY - 2019 SN - 9781447349969 1447349962 9781447349976 9781447350156 9781447349983 1447349989 1447350154 1447349970 PB - Bristol, UK : Policy Press, DB - UniCat KW - Unemployed KW - Unemployment KW - Government policy KW - Government policy. KW - Social policy KW - Labour market KW - Europe KW - Unemployed - Government policy - Europe KW - Unemployment - Government policy - Europe KW - Joblessness KW - Employment (Economic theory) KW - Full employment policies KW - Labor supply KW - Manpower policy KW - Underemployment KW - Jobless people KW - Out-of-work people KW - Unemployed people KW - Unemployed workers KW - Persons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:48229909 AB - Activation policies which promote and enforce labour market participation continue to proliferate in Europe and constitute the reform blueprint from centre-left to centre-right, as well as for most international organizations. Through an in-depth study of four major reforms in Denmark and France, this book maps how co-existing ideas are mobilised to justify, criticise and reach activation compromises and how their morality sediments into the instruments governing the unemployed. By rethinking the role of ideas and morality in policy changes, this book illustrates how the moral economy of activation leads to a permanent behaviourist testing of the unemployed in public debate as well as in local jobcentres. ER -