The nature of front-line work plays a crucial role for understanding what activation, welfare-to-work, work-first or social disciplining policies practically mean and how they affect the citizens subject to these policies. Front-line workers are simultaneously the ones implementing policy (agent of the state), transforming policies into practice (mediator of policies) as well as the ones having an important impact on the political nature of the services actually delivered (mediators of politics) (Brodkin 2013). This means that frontline work has to be interpreted in the interrelation with policy, governance, organizational and occupational contexts. This article analyses the development and current state of frontline work in Denmark where t...