Does the New Managerialism Stabilise Gender Asymmetries in Street-Level Interactions? The case of Germany after ‘Hartz IV’

The new ‘basic allowance for job seekers’ (‘Hartz IV’) introduced in Germany in 2005 was accompanied by a claim that ‘activating’ labour market policies would increase gender equality, not least by requiring mothers without a breadwinning partner to take up paid work and supporting them in doing so....

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Main Author: Karen Jaehrling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Social Work & Society 2015-04-01
Series:Social Work and Society
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Online Access:https://ejournals.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/sws/article/view/421