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Investing in the Citizen‐workers of the Future: Transformations in Citizenship and the State under New Labour
Author(s) -
Lister Ruth
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
social policy and administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9515
pISSN - 0144-5596
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9515.00350
Subject(s) - citizenship , investment (military) , state (computer science) , context (archaeology) , social citizenship , political science , political economy , sociology , economic system , economics , law , politics , geography , algorithm , computer science , archaeology
There is growing interest in the idea of the “social investment state”. This paper analyses the emergence of such a state in the UK, in the context of a brief account of the more general transformations of citizenship and the state under New Labour. It argues that, despite the iconic status of the child in the social investment state, it is the child as “citizen‐worker” of the future rather than “citizen‐child” of the present who is invoked by the future‐oriented discourse of social investment.