For Whose Benefit?: The Everyday Realities of Welfare Reform

ISBN-13: 9781447333487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 272 str.

Ruth Patrick

Opis

Welfare reform in the United Kingdom has been underway for years now, but there has been little reflection on how it has been experienced and thought about by the people who are directly affected by it. This book draws on extended, repeat interviews with single parents, disabled people, and young job seekers to consider how they experience the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, and whether the welfare state still offers meaningful protection and security for those who rely on it. This analysis enables the author to highlight the gap between the lived experience of welfare and the policy rhetoric surrounding it.

Spis treści

Foreword ~ Baroness Ruth Lister 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 benefit 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’