Women and Welfare Conditionality
eBook - ePub

Women and Welfare Conditionality

Lived Experiences of Benefit Sanctions, Work and Welfare

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Women and Welfare Conditionality

Lived Experiences of Benefit Sanctions, Work and Welfare

About this book

Winner of SPA Richard Titmuss Prize 2024.

Recent welfare reforms, based on austerity narratives and a gender-neutral rationale, have failed to recognise the ways in which women and men experience the different demands and rewards of paid employment and unpaid care.

This book draws on a wealth of qualitative longitudinal evidence to cast light on women's lived experiences of welfare and work. Giving voice to social security recipients, this book uncovers the hidden gendered bias of conditional welfare reforms to challenge dominant political discourses, policy design and practice norms.

It combines and develops three interdisciplinary perspectives – feminist analysis, lived experience and street-level bureaucracy – to offer a new understanding of British welfare reform policies and practice.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Pages
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Content warning
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of Figure, Tables and Charts
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. One What does work-based welfare reform mean for women?
  12. Two Re-theorising conditional welfare as gendered lived experience and street-level practice
  13. Three Policy context: the hidden gendered impacts of conditional welfare reforms
  14. Four Rewriting retirement as ‘work experience’: older women’s gendered encounters with the work ethic
  15. Five Crushing conditionality: women living through heavily enforced work-related conditionality
  16. Six In the shadow of sanctions: disciplining women and children for violating male-defined work norms
  17. Seven Conclusions
  18. Appendix 1: The Welfare Conditionality study
  19. Appendix 2: Sanctions overviews
  20. Notes
  21. References
  22. Index