Full Description
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the ongoing digital transformation of public employment services (PES) - the most radical remaking of the welfare state in a generation.
As PES shift from analogue to fully digitised services, this volume bridges the gap between technology, policy and frontline service provision. It provides a well-rounded analysis of the practical opportunities and challenges posed by digital welfare, reconnecting and reconciling technical possibilities and political ambitions with what is socially necessary as welfare systems undergo radical change.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. From Politics to Code: The Unfolding of EU Digital Aspirations Into Practice
3. Algorithmic Profiling of the Unemployed
4. The Making of an Unemployed Population
5. Open Inquiry into Disruptive Digital Services
6. Legal Considerations for Algorithm Development
7. Labour Market Data, Job Matching and Job Quality
8. Looking for a Job: What Types of Information Matter to Jobseekers?
9. Digitising Exclusion: The Challenges of Modern Unemployment and Public Employment Service Delivery
10. Co-designing Digital Services with Service Users, Caseworkers and Senior Policy Makers: the Affordance and Limitations of Expert Panels
11. Digital or Human Support for the Unemployed? Profiling Tools and Advisers at Work in the French Public Employment Services
12. Cyborg Futures of Care and Welfare: Acceptance and Resistance of Digital Public Employment Services Technologies as Competent Caregiver
13. Exploring Omni-channel Welfare Experiences in Unemployment Services
14. Profiling and Subjectification of Unemployed People: Exploring the Case of Slovenian Public Employment Services
15. Conclusion
