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There has been much policy interest in incapacity-related benefits in the UK in recent years. This article employs data from a qualitative exploration of routes onto incapacity-related benefits and illustrates some of the processes associated with exiting different sectors of the labour market and making a claim for incapacity benefits. It illustrates that people can have complex conditions that potentially require a holistic and integrated policy approach. Those in the lower sector of the labour market, especially, sometimes perceived that their employment prospects were limited: sometimes by their health, sometimes by the area they lived in, sometimes by the qualifications needed to do what they termed 'good jobs' and sometimes by all of these factors.

Argues that we are moving toward a "golden age of social science empiricism" that will foster greater consensus on public policies that promote public interest. This empiricism will bolster good public policy in the face of partisanship & special interests, making it harder for the political process to be manipulated. The rise of this empiricism is described, highlighting how it already aids consensus politics & will continue to do so into the future. Adapted from the source document.

This article is based on a study of men's relationship to the social work profession in the North-West of England. It argues that men's presence in the social work profession is accounted for in discourses of career motivation, of career choice, and of men social workers as heroes and/or 'gentle-men'. The article considers how these negotiations between gender and professional identities might contribute to debates about the detraditionalization of gender and work identities in late modernity.