Women and Welfare Conditionality

Lived Experiences of Benefit Sanctions, Work and Welfare

AvSharon Wright

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Winner of SPA Richard Titmuss Prize 2024.Recent welfare reforms, based on austerity narratives and a gender-neutral rationale, have failed to recognise the ways in which women and men experience the different demands and rewards of paid employment and unpaid care. This book draws on a wealth of qualitative longitudinal evidence to cast light on women’s lived experiences of welfare and work. Giving voice to social security recipients, this book uncovers the hidden gendered bias of conditional welfare reforms to challenge dominant political discourses, policy design and practice norms. It combines and develops three interdisciplinary perspectives – feminist analysis, lived experience and street-level bureaucracy – to offer a new understanding of British welfare reform policies and practice.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-30
Mått:156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt:449 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Welfare Conditionality
Antal sidor:190
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781447347736

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Sharon Wright is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Glasgow.

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"All in all, this is a highly recommended book for both academics and (hopefully) also politicians and policy makers in the field of social security law." Journal of Social Security Law

Innehållsförteckning

1. What Does Work-based Welfare Reform Mean for Women?2. Re-Theorising Conditional Welfare As Gendered Lived Experience and Street-Level Practice3. Policy Context: The Hidden Gendered Impacts of Conditional Welfare Reforms4. Re-Writing Retirement As ‘Work Experience’: Older Women’s Gendered Encounters With the Work Ethic5. Crushing Conditionality: Women Living Through Heavily Enforced Work-Related Conditionality6. In the Shadow of Sanctions: Disciplining Women and Children for Violating Male-Defined Work Norms7. ConclusionsAppendix 1: The Welfare Conditionality StudyAppendix 2: Sanctions Overviews