Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: My Intellectual Journey -- References -- Chapter 2: Workfare in Welfare -- Workfare Policies and Central Europe -- Material Need Assistance Reforms in Slovakia -- The 2004 'New Social Policy' Reform -- The 2014 Material Need Assistance Upgrade -- Critiques of Workfare -- References -- Chapter 3: Methodology and Method -- Discursive Framework -- Discourse and Power -- Analysis of Political Discourse -- Data Collection and Data Analysis -- Questions, Data, Processes -- Methodological Difficulties -- References -- Chapter 4: The Poor, the Offenders, and the 'Unadaptable': Categories Policy-makers Use When Talking About Material Need Recipients -- Poor, Disadvantaged, and Criminal -- The Poverty-Crime Link -- The Ethnicity-Crime Link -- Accepted Shared Representations of the 'Unadaptable' and the Marginalised -- The Story of a Cancer -- References -- Chapter 5: Topics Addressed in Parliamentary Debates -- Evaluating the Social Assistance System -- 'There Are No Cakes Without Work' -- 'Heads Must Roll' -- References -- Chapter 6: Justification of Workfare: The Arguments Policy-makers Use -- 'A Crooked System Leads to Crooked Behaviour' -- Workfare Is Just a Just Measure -- Workfare in Theory and in Practice -- Justifying Illustrations -- References -- Chapter 7: Welfare as a Security Issue -- The Social Construction of Security -- From Non-politicised to Securitised -- Security |