Workforce exclusion is a complex and enduring problem in Australia, with some groups of job seekers more likely to be disadvantaged in the labour market than others. We identify a dominant unemployment narrative of ‘work first’ that surrounds unemployment interventions, and ignores the nature of disadvantage and its relationship to workforce exclusion, and reduces unemployment...

This study, funded by Flinders University and the South Australian Housing Trust presents a 'snap-shot' of the 240 cases where bailiffs were called out during a three month period in 2002. It profiles the tenancies, outlines the legal process and describes the changing relationship between the public and private rental sectors.