Bill Jordan

Documented and Undocumented Immigrant Workers in the UK: Changing Environments and Shifting Strategies

This chapter provides a ‘view from below’, through the accounts of migrants themselves. Two groups of migrants are investigated here: Polish and Indian nationals. The study compares undocumented immigrants, legitimate entrepreneurial migrants and work permit holders. The interviews conducted with migrants show how they interpret and interact with the strategies employed by enforcement agencies; and whether they see control practices as a deterrent or merely as an obstacle; and the strategies of irregular migrants with particular attention to changes in the light of new legal opportunities are studied. Furthermore, this chapter analyses how the government’s offer of ‘legal migration channels’ is perceived by would-be migrants: whether these channels suit the migrants’ aspirations and if these are appreciated or rejected.

Teaching values: An experience of the diploma in social work

In this article we offer a review of a 4-week module on Core Values, which took place at the start of a new Diploma of Social Work (DipSW) programme. The experience may be of interest to other programme providers because it tackled an aspect of the DipSW which is innovatory in its emphasis on combining values with competencies; and because of its siting as a full-time and intensive module at the beginning of the programme.

Social value in policies for children: contract or culture?

Both the collapse of the financial system and the recent child protection scandals in the UK illustrate the limitations of the contract model for regulating social interactions. This article argues that the economic orthodoxy that has dominated recent public policy in the affluent Anglophone countries is now discredited, and that the social value derived from communications and exchanges within cultures of empathy, respect and inclusion should supply criteria for evaluating interventions, and should replace contracts as means of sustaining quality in many aspects of services.

Book Reviews : Beyond the New Paternalism: Basic Security as Equality Guy Standing Verso, London, 2002, ISBN 1-8598-4345-X, £17.00 (pbk)

press for new perspectives and policies. Published almost simultaneously with Joseph Stiglitz’s Globalisation and tts Discontents, it might be seen as global labour’s alternative prospectus, as the counterpart to that version of global capital’s. Guy Standing’s central thesis is that the ’era of market regulation’ (also known as the Washington Consensus) is being succeeded by a new orthodoxy which adds paternalistic control to the insecurities of labour markets. The first part of the book documents the transition from welfare state capitalism, based on the values of labour and promoting several forms of security, to economic liberalization. It shows how the new emphasis on competitiveness and flexibility contributed to deregulation and informalization of employment and how these in turn affected social.policy. He deals almost exclusively with income protection here, with a chapter on the funding crisis in pensions and one on unemployment-related benefits, showing how the assumptions that underpinned statutory regulation and social insurance were unable to withstand the assault of world economic