Half a Citizen: Life on welfare in Australia

ISBN-13: 9781742376059 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 252 str.

John Murphy; Suellen Murray; Jenny Chalmers

Opis

Explores behind the unemployment statistics to shed new light on what it is like to live on a low income and experience the brunt of welfare reform, exploding the persistent myth that welfare recipients don't contribute to society.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

List of tables and figures

1. The receiving end of welfare

2. Poverty, deprivation, resilience

3. Housing

4. Social connections

5. Working lives

6. Barriers to and support for working

7. Welfare as work: Dealing with Centrelink

8. Values and ethics about income support

Afterword: In the no-standing zone

Appendix 1: The research project

Appendix 2: The characteristics of our participants

Notes

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

JOHN MURPHY is Associate Professor in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. His most recent book is A Decent Provision: Australian welfare policy, 1870 to 1949 (Ashgate, 2011). SUELLEN MURRAY is Associate Professor in the Centre for Applied Social Research at RMIT University. Her most recent book, with John Murphy and others, is After the Orphanage: Beyond the children's home (UNSW Press, 2009). JENNY CHALMERS is Senior Research Fellow at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales. SONIA MARTIN is is Lecturer in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning at RMIT University. GREG MARSTON is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and Human Services, The University of Queensland.