In our preceding post, Driven To Market : Youth Work’s Sheepish Response?, we promised to put up some useful links  exploring the growing unrest about the marketisation of  every nook and cranny of the public realm. Indeed since the turn of the year there has been a notable increase in critical responses to this privatised assault on the idea of ‘the common good’. If you missed them the first time round, here are some worth visiting.

Who is making the money as private firms move in on the public sector?

 

Exclusive: A4e and a £200m back-to-work scandal

 

Boycott Workfare is a UK-wide campaign to end forced unpaid work for people who receive welfare. Workfare profits the rich by providing free labour, whilst threatening the poor by taking away welfare rights if people refuse to work without a living wage. We are a grass-roots campaign, formed in 2010 by people with experience of workfare and those concerned about its impact. We expose and take action against companies and organisations profiting from workfare; encourage organisations to pledge to boycott it; and actively inform people of their rights.