Lone Mothers, Paid Work and Gendered Moral Rationalitie
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Lone Mothers, Paid Work and Gendered Moral Rationalitie

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Lone Mothers, Paid Work and Gendered Moral Rationalitie

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Why are most British lone mothers unemployed? And is 'welfare to work' the right sort of policy response? This book provides an in-depth analysis of how lone mothers negotiate the relationship between motherhood and paid work. Combining qualitative and quantitative data, it focuses on social capital in different neighbourhoods, local labour markets and welfare states. Criticising conventional economic theories of decision-making, it posits an alternative concept of 'gendered moral rationality', and sets up new frameworks for understanding national policy differences and discourses about lone motherhood.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. List of Tables
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. 1 Explaining the ‘Problem’ of Lone Motherhood: an Introduction
  7. 2 Understanding Lone Motherhood: Competing Discourses and Positions
  8. 3 Lone Mothers in Neighbourhoods: Material Contexts and Social Capital
  9. 4 Lone Mothers and Gendered Moral Rationalities: Orientations to Paid Work
  10. 5 Lone Mothers and Paid Work: Human Capital or Gendered Moral Rationalities?
  11. 6 Lone Mothers in Labour Markets: Employment Availability and Geography
  12. 7 Lone Mothers and Genderfare: Positioning Lone Mothers in Welfare States
  13. 8 Economic Decision-making and Moral Rationalities
  14. 9 From National ‘Welfare to Work’ to Local ‘Welfare and Work’
  15. References
  16. Index