Whilst welfare and employment are not at the centre of Etzioni’s arguments, in the hands of New Labour, and following the Clinton governments, the communitarian argument has been used as an ideological means for attaching a much-strengthened obligation to work to unemployment-related benefits. This stance fits neatly with New Labour’s conception of combating ‘social exclusion’ as a guiding principle in its social policies. Social exclusion offers a wider concept than poverty in addressing the needs of the poor or marginalised, dealing as it does with the need for inclusion and participation rather than
simply increased income. Yet it has been interpreted by New Labour almost solely as participation in paid employment. Paid employment is seen as the solution to a range of social problems, from poverty to youth crime. New Labour emphasises the moral and social benefits of participation in work, as well as its income gains. As Levitas (1996) has argued, this definition of social exclusion obscures divisions and inequalities between those not deemed as excluded. Furthermore, when allied with the attachment of responsibilities to rights, it provides the essential social and political justification for policies whose key economic goal is to further international competitiveness.
同时，福利和就业是不是在Etzioni的争论的中心，在新工党的手，和之后的克林顿政府，集体主义的论点已被用来作为附加一个加强工作的失业利益相关义务的思想方法。这一立场非常适合打击“社会排斥”的概念作为新工党的社会政策的指导原则。社会排斥提供了一个解决穷人或被边缘化的需求比贫穷更广泛的概念，它宣扬需要包容和参与而不是
简单地增加收入。然而，它被解释由新工党几乎完全为有偿就业的参与。有偿的工作看作是一系列的社会问题的解决，从贫穷到青少年犯罪。新工党强调参与工作的道德和社会效益，以及它的收益。利维塔斯（1996）认为，社会排斥掩盖那些不认为排除之间的分歧和不平等这一定义。此外，当盟军与责任，权利的附件，它提供了关键的经济政策的目标是进一步的国际竞争力的重要的社会和政治的理由。
