Frontline delivery of welfare-to-work policies in Europe : activating the unemployed / edited by Rik van Berkel, Dorte Caswell, Peter Kupka and Flemming Larsen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- The frontline delivery of welfare-to-work in context / Dorte Caswell, Peter Kupka, Flemming Larsen and Rik van Berkel -- State of the art in frontline studies of welfare-to-work : a literature review / Rik van Berkel -- Street-level organizations and us workfare : insights for policy and theory / Evelyn Z. Brodkin -- Activation in the UK : the front line and the "black box" of employment service provision / Roy Sainsbury -- Back-to-work services in france and the flexibility edict / Lynda Lavitry -- Activation "made in Germany" : welfare-to-work services under "social code II" / Peter Kupka nd Christopher Osiander -- On the frontline of public employment services in Austria and Italy : which professionalism for which practices? / Urban Nothdurfter -- Activation work within the social welfare system : the case of Poland / Tomasz Kazmierczak and Marek Rymsza -- The street-level activation of the unemployed remote and very remote from the labour market : the Dutch case / Rik van Berkel -- Frontline work in the delivery of Danish activation policies : and how governance, organizational and occupational contexts shape this / Dorte Caswell and Flemming Larsen -- Conclusions and topics for future research / Dorte Caswell, Flemming Larsen, Rik van Berkel and Peter Kupka -- Index.