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In Bureaucratic Manoeuvres, John Grundy examines profound transformations in the governance of unemployment in Canada. 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.
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. 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.
Contents
Introduction
1. Conceptualizing the Limits of Activation Policy
2. "More Than a Placement Service": The Transient High Modernism of "Manpower" Planning, 1965-76
3. Making and Unmaking Frontline Professionalism, 1977-90
4. Within Reach of the "What Works Best Solution": Evidence-Based Activation, 1994-2000
5. Toward a Culture of Results, 1996-2000
Conclusions
Appendix A: List of Acronyms
Appendix B: List of Interviews
