Unjust Conditions
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Unjust Conditions

  1. English
  2. PDF
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eBook - PDF

Unjust Conditions

About this book

Unjust Conditions follows the lives and labors of poor mothers in rural Peru, richly documenting the ordeals they face to participate in mainstream poverty alleviation programs. Championed by behavioral economists and the World Bank, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are praised as efficient mechanisms for changing poor people's behavior. While rooted in good intentions and dripping with the rhetoric of social inclusion, CCT programs' successes ring hollow, based solely on metrics for children's attendance at school and health appointments. Looking beyond these statistics reveals a host of hidden costs for the mothers who meet the conditions. With a poignant voice and keen focus on ethnographic research, Tara Patricia Cookson turns the reader's gaze to women's care work in landscapes of grossly inadequate state investment, cleverly drawing out the tensions between social inclusion and conditionality.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Half Title
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Epigraph
  8. Contents
  9. Illustrations
  10. Preface
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Map of Peru
  13. 1 Introduction
  14. 2 Setting the Conditions
  15. 3 The Ironic Conditions of Clinics and Schools
  16. 4 Rural Women Walking and Waiting
  17. 5 Paid and Unpaid Labor on the Frontline State
  18. 6 Shadow Conditions and the Immeasurable Burden of Improvement
  19. 7 Conclusion
  20. Notes
  21. References
  22. Index