TY - BOOK ID - 134728318 TI - Bureaucratic Manoeuvres : The Contested Administration of the Unemployed PY - 2019 SN - 1487530242 PB - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - Manpower policy KW - Canada. KW - activation. KW - governmentality. KW - jobs public employment services. KW - labour market. KW - managerialism. KW - manpower. KW - political economy. KW - street-level bureaucracy. KW - unemployment. KW - welfare-to-work. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134728318 AB - 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. ER -