Hidden Voices
eBook - ePub

Hidden Voices

Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space

  1. 198 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Hidden Voices

Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space

About this book

Underpinned by the idea of the right to a 'basic minimum', welfare states are a major feature of many societies. However, the lived experiences of persons seeking and receiving welfare payments can often be overlooked.

This book seeks to remedy this omission by honouring lived experience as valuable, insightful and necessary. It draws on qualitative interviews with 19 people receiving various working age welfare payments in Ireland to explore stigma, social reciprocity and the notions of the deserving and undeserving poor, and to analyse welfare conditionality in the Irish context.

Breaking new ground, this book offers original research findings which contest and inform policy both within Ireland and beyond.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of Tables
  9. Glossary
  10. About the Author
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. Foreword
  13. Series Editors’ Preface
  14. Introduction
  15. 1 Setting the stage: the development of the Irish welfare state and its place in the world of welfare
  16. 2 Welfare, marginality and social liminality: life in the welfare ‘space’
  17. 3 The effect of the work ethic
  18. 4 Welfare conditionality
  19. 5 Maintaining compliance and engaging in impression management
  20. 6 Deservingness: othering, self-justification and the norm of reciprocity
  21. 7 Welfare is ‘bad’: bringing it all together
  22. 8 COVID-19: policy responses and lived experiences
  23. Conclusion
  24. Notes
  25. References
  26. Index