040 __ |a NLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d BDX |d NLC |d OCLCF |d IUL |d LTSCA |d RCE |d YDX |d OCLCO |d NLC |d GUA |d OCL

245 10 |a Bureaucratic manoeuvres : |b the contested administration of the unemployed / |c John Grundy.

260 __ |a Toronto ; |a Buffalo ; |a London : |b University of Toronto Press, |c [2019]

490 0_ |a Studies in comparative political economy and public policy ; |v 56

520 __ |a "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."-- |c Provided by publisher.