1. Introduction: towards a better workfare state, or one beyond it! / Mick Carpenter, Stuart Speeden and Belinda Freda -- Pt. 1. Case studies in labour market discrimination and inequalities -- 2. Beyond the ghost town? The 'promising practices' of community-based initiatives in Coventry / Mick Carpenter, Barbara Merrill, Phil Cleaver and Inga Sniukaite -- 3. "It's about having a life, isn't it?": employability, discrimination and disabled people / Debby Watson, Val Williams and Claire Wickham -- 4. Between work and tradition: minority ethnic women in North West England / Stuart Speeden -- 5. Discrimination and geographical exclusion: a case study of North West Wales / Brec'hed Piette and Rhian McCarthy -- 6. Out of the picture? Sexual orientation and labour market discrimination / Anne Bellis, Teresa Cairns and Susan McGrath -- 7. Youth discrimination and labour market access: from transitions to capabilities? / Mick Carpenter and Belinda Freda -- 8. Employability in the third age: a qualitative study of older people in the Glasgow labour market / Pamela Clayton -- 9. Refugees and the labour market: refugee sector practice in the 'employability' paradigm / Azar Sheibani -- Pt. 2. Implications for wider policies -- 10. Origins and effects of New Labour's workfare state: modernisation or variations on old themes? / Mick Carpenter and Stuart Speeden -- 11. Capabilities, human rights and the challenge to workfare / Mick Carpenter, Stuart Speeden, Colin Griffin and Nick Walters.