Buying and Selling the Poor

by Mark Considine, Michael McGann, Siobhan O'Sullivan

Buying and Selling the Poor ventures behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar welfare-to-work system, offering new insights into how Australia responds to unemployment and disadvantage. As the authors tell the story of four local employment offices, they paint a vivid picture of a critically important social service which many people are aware of but which few properly understand. They also reveal the wider impacts that processes of marketisation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1743327862
• ISBN13: 9781743327869
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Sydney University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"