ISBN:
9781447347736
,
9781447347743
Language:
English
Pages:
191 Seiten
Series Statement:
Welfare conditionality series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.420941
Abstract:
Drawing on a wealth of qualitative longitudinal evidence, this book casts light on women's lived experiences of welfare and work. It uncovers the hidden gendered bias of conditional welfare reforms to challenge dominant political discourses, policy design and practice norms.
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Half-title -- Series page -- Women and Welfare Conditionality: Lived Experiences of Benefit Sanctions, Work and Welfare -- Copyright information -- Content warning -- Table of Contents -- List of figure, tables and charts -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- ONE What does work-based welfare reform mean for women? -- Introduction -- What is welfare conditionality? -- Benefit sanctions -- From conditionality 'creep' to 'ubiquity' -- Switching work expectations for lone parents: from protected status to androgynous workers -- Applying Dorothy Smith's ideas to interpreting welfare conditionality from a feminist perspective -- The study -- Sanctioning patterns -- Defining gender -- Gender, 'race' and intersectionality -- Structure of the book -- TWO Re-theorising conditional welfare as gendered lived experience and street-level practice -- Introduction -- Gendering the concept of conditionality -- The ethics of care -- Conceptualising how women's real lives are mediated by welfare conditionality -- Feminising interpretivism and street-level bureaucracy -- Street-level studies of contemporary welfare conditionality -- Profit-making in Public Employment Services -- Discretion -- Applying Dorothy Smith: social security as 'textually mediated relations of ruling' -- Gendered hierarchy of 'facts' -- Boss texts -- Ideology and disjuncture -- Four layers of welfare conditionality text - mediating relations of ruling -- Layer one: tracing the origins of policy texts to domain assumptions -- Layer two: 'boss texts' in law and policy -- Layer three: hidden institutional texts that shape front-line practice -- Layer four: how the encounter is shaped by the text of policy instruments -- The male subtext of the 'claimant commitment' -- Conclusion -- THREE Policy context: the hidden gendered impacts of conditional welfare reforms.
