For Whose Benefit? : : The Everyday Realities of Welfare Reform /

For Whose Benefit? : : The Everyday Realities of Welfare Reform / / Ruth Patrick.

What does day-to-day life involve for those who receive out-of-work benefits? Is the political focus on moving people from ‘welfare’ and into work the right one? And do mainstream political and media accounts of the ‘problem’ of ‘welfare’ accurately reflect lived realities? For whose benefit? The ev...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
VerfasserIn:
Patrick, Ruth,
MitwirkendeR:
Lister, Baroness Ruth,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Glossary
  • Notes on author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: Beyond Benefits Street – exploring experiences and narratives of welfare reform
  • Social citizenship from above
  • The emergence of a framing consensus on ‘welfare’
  • The everyday realities of out-of-work benefits receipt
  • Is welfare-to-work working? Relationships with work over time
  • Ending welfare dependency? Experiencing welfare reform
  • Scroungerphobia: living with the stigma of benefits
  • Diverse trajectories between 2011 and 2016
  • Conclusion: social insecurity and ‘welfare’
  • References
  • Index

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