Corporate Watch: The Unemployment Business
Submitted by Adam on Sat, 24/04/2010 - 10:39pm
Should make interesting reading...
The latest issue of the Corporate Watch Newsletter is out. The double issue looks at the 'unemployment business'; its protagonists, ideological, political and economic premises and how it is being utilised by the New Labour government to dismantle what’s left of the welfare state. Examining the old and new benefit and employment regimes, it also provides new details and figures about the winners and losers, or the private contractors and their victims. The full text of the articles can be read online or downloaded at http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3572 .
Any thoughts?
Thanks for the link, that certainly does make really interesting reading. It's not often you get a Daily Mail-style rant that's actually on the side of the benefits claimants & the state!
They seem to have got the wrong end of the stick a bit.
Just to pick one point: they seem to just dismiss the known harmful effects of unemployment on young people. Even more puzzling is their criticism of the 6 month guarantee of work, training or work experience, that “Forcing [young people] into work as quickly as possible through such ‘help’ schemes is just the right recipe for further exploitation”. They don’t seem to have done their research and know that that this includes (largely) public sector Future Jobs Fund jobs and (largely) community sector Community Task Force places. Given their ideological position, I would have thought this would be exactly what they’d want – state/ community run for public benefit.
I’ll leave it there. I could go on...
Pity some people forget who pays for this...and who pockets the money.