Employer engagement: Making active labour market policies work Edited by Jo Ingold and Patrick McGurk. Bristol University Press, Mar 1, 2024, 270 pp., ISBN: 978–1529223002, Price GBP 28.99, p/b
| Published date | 01 December 2023 |
| Author | Sarah Ball |
| Date | 01 December 2023 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12772 |
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DOI: 10.1111/bj ir.12772
Employer engagement: Making active labour market policies work
Edited by Jo Ingold and Patrick McGurk. Bristol University Press, Mar 1, 2024, 270 pp.,
ISBN: 978–1529223002, Price GBP 28.99, p/b
Sarah Ball
School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Sarah Ball, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne.
Email: sarah.ball@unimelb.edu.au
There is a lot written about active labour marketpolicy (ALMP) but editors Ingold and McGurk, in
their book Employer Engagement: Making Active Labour Market Policies Work,make an excellent
case for the oft-overlooked role of employers. The focus of ALMP research to date has primarily
been on the unemployed −whether young, old, disabled, migrants or parents to name a few −and
the providers of employment services −profit, not-for-profit, private, public, trauma-informed
and many more. This book, and the contributions of its authors, does a brilliant job of highlighting
the importance of extending this blinkered view and expands the horizons of research to date.
The book canvasses a breadth of fields, including social and public policy, political economy,
employment relations, HR management and leadership, as well as from practitioners. Using
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