The Impact of Networks on Unemployment
This book investigates why networks, some with joined-up governance remits, appeared ineffective in handling neighbourhood unemployment even in periods when the national unemployment levels dropped. It deploys a multi-theoretical and methodological framew
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The Impact of Networks on Unemployment
The Impact of Networks on Unemployment J.M. Hurst
J.M. Hurst
ISBN 978-1-137-02537-1 ISBN 978-1-349-66890-8 DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-66890-8
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PREFACE
Networks continuously shape and change the social and economic dynamics of a place. Think of the historical trajectory of governing networks, from those assisting feudal systems to parish vestries organising levies and disbursing parochial incomes and donations, then to parish councils and local government. In recent decades, ‘governance’ networks have permeated every policy avenue, supposedly for better outcomes, yet hardly anyone considers the network impact. Despite these networks, human potential is frittered away and many local problems sustained. Britain’s historic vote in 2016 to exit Europe’s grand partnership has deepened economic uncertainty and challenges local networks. But British and European unemployment policy, as cascaded through network policy, had already produced social and geographic division. Neighbourhood unemployment, for example, has blighted millions of lives and drained welfare resources in the absence of effective networks that coordinate a job supply. Britain has a long history of neighbourhood unemployment, but neither the market nor government has eased the problem. Article 23 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights advocates the ‘human right to work’, but not to work itself, and the 1953
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