SORVEGLIARE E PUNIRE I POVERI. Il trattamento degli assistiti nella politica sociale neoliberista/SURVEILLANCE AND PUNISHMENT OF POOR. Treatment of people on benefits in neoliberal social policy

Abstract

The article aims to explore the changement in the welfare system in
Western Europe, from Keynesianism to Neoliberalism, with a special focus
on the last 30 years. Since the ‘90s we could have observed a paradigm
shift, due to the development of the “activation” policies. Helping poor
people under Neoliberalism doesn’t aspire anymore to make them integrate
in society, but rather enabling them to work. In this text we want to analyse
the change in poverty governance policies through 3 points: conditionality,
activation and control.

Keywords:
Welfare; Workfare; Poor; Conditionality; Activation; Control; Assisted.