For whose benefit?
The everyday realities of welfare reform
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 everyday realities of welfare reform explores these questions by talking to those directly affected by recent reforms. Ruth Patrick interviewed single parents, disabled people and young jobseekers on benefits repeatedly over five years to find out how they experienced the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, and whether the welfare state sti…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4473-3349-4
- EAN: 9781447333494
- Produktnummer: 23890061
- Verlag: Policy Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 584 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Dr Ruth Patrick is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool. She has written widely on welfare reform and social citizenship for both academic and mainstream media publications. She facilitated the Dole Animators project (see www.doleanimators.org @doleanimators). She tweets at @ruthpatrick0.
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