Soon the only employment will be in the employment industry. You'll have work coaches hired to interview other work coaches because nothing else exists.
The coming period is going to be a boom for the employment industry: agencies contracted through public money to essentially eat themselves. The out of work masses will be shoved from one group to another, never really getting anywhere because what jobs will there be? There seems to be the notion that the more we have of this industry the more the labour market will grow, but the truth is they have no influence on the labour market. They do not create jobs. They don't produce anything.
Instead they will profit from the plebs passing through their doors on a conveyor belt from one organisation back to the DWP and to another. Those that are deemed to not be participatory, not be doing enough to fully engage with this pointless round of confidence (trickery) building, magic thinking, and CV tinkering, will be weeded out. Excised and pulped, left with nothing. In this way the government will be seen as positively improving things for people. Of course whenever labour market policies and their effects are discussed there is no interested in the details: how employment is calculated, or, crucially, what people are actually doing to be considered success stories.
And so these organisations will grow fat from public money and contracts. Each will have its turn at the trough and then morph into the next contractor. Working Links became Ingeus and now Fedcap Employment has their contact (in Scotland at least). Nothing really changes. It's a gravy train. It's purpose isn't to help you, if you are helped - great - but that is a happy side effect. Since these organisations have no revolutionary impetus, offer no class consciousness, and don't have the tools to create jobs or even influence employers on behalf of their candidates (because that would be seen as counter to free market principles), they can't do much. It's profit.
Capitalism strikes again.
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