 For Ivar Lødemel and Heather Trickey , editors of ' An Offer You Can 't Refuse ' : Workfare in International Perspective , workfare programmes ' reliance on compulsion makes them throffers . Citing the Danish model as a particular example , the pair argue that workfare involves the use of compulsory offers ; while the work or education is presented as an offer , because recipients of welfare are dependent upon the help they would lose if they refuse the offer , they effectively have no choice . The compulsive aspect reveals that at least some recipients of welfare , in the eyes of policy makers , require coercion before they will accept offers of work . Neither the chance of paid work nor participation in labour schemes are , alone , enough to encourage some to freely accept the offers they receive . Such compulsion serves to reintegrate people into the labour market , and serves as a kind of " new paternalism " . The authors are concerned about this compulsion , and present several arguments against it which are possible or have been utilised in the literature : Firstly , it impacts the rights of those against whom it is used . This may make it objectionable in and of itself , or it may result in undesirable outcomes . Secondly , it can be argued that benefits must be unconditional in order to act as a genuine safety net . Thirdly , compulsion undermines consumer feedback , and so no differentiation can be made between good and poor programmes presented to those receiving welfare . Fourthly , such coercion may contribute to a culture of resistance among those receiving welfare . 
