Contents

pp v-v

List of Tables and Figures

pp vi-vi

List of Abbreviations

pp vii-viii

Series Preface

pp ix-x

Preface

pp xi-xii

PART I - Modelling

pp 1-2

1 - The Active Turn(s)

pp 3-20

2 - Tests, Compromises and Policy Change

pp 21-34

3 - Cities of Unemployment

pp 35-62

PART II - Activation Reforms

pp 63-64

4 - From Looking Backwards to Forwards: Unemployment Insurance, France, 2000

pp 65-90

5 - Turning Solutions into ‘Structural’ Problems: Unemployment Insurance, Denmark, 1992–93

pp 91-118

6 - Testing Thresholds: Social Assistance, France, 2007–08

pp 119-142

7 - Intimate Scandals: Social Assistance, Denmark, 2011–13

pp 143-170

PART III - Patterns

pp 171-172

8 - Chemotherapy: The Content of the Moral Economy of Activation

pp 173-186

9 - Infinite Testing: Tests and Critique in and Below the Public

pp 187-200

References

pp 201-226

Index

pp 227-238