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For Whose Benefit?: The Everyday Realities of Welfare Reform
Ruth Patrick
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Description for For Whose Benefit?: The Everyday Realities of Welfare Reform
Paperback. 'For whose benefit?' explores how those at the sharp end of welfare reform experience changes to the benefit system. It looks at how the rights and responsibilities of citizenship are experienced on the ground, and whether the welfare state still offers meaningful protection and security to those who rely upon it. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 black & white tables, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
What does day-to-day life involve for those who receive out-of-work benefits? Is the political focus on moving people from `welfare' and into work the right one? And do mainstream politicians' and the media's analyses of the `problem' of welfare accurately reflect what life on benefits is really like? Ruth Patrick interviewed single parents, disabled people and young jobseekers on benefits over five years to find out how they experience the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, and whether the welfare state still offers meaningful protection and security in times of need. This important book offers a timely ... Read more
What does day-to-day life involve for those who receive out-of-work benefits? Is the political focus on moving people from `welfare' and into work the right one? And do mainstream politicians' and the media's analyses of the `problem' of welfare accurately reflect what life on benefits is really like? Ruth Patrick interviewed single parents, disabled people and young jobseekers on benefits over five years to find out how they experience the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, and whether the welfare state still offers meaningful protection and security in times of need. This important book offers a timely ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Policy Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447333487
SKU
V9781447333487
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Ref
99-50
About Ruth Patrick
Dr Ruth Patrick is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool. She has written widely on welfare reform and social citizenship for both academic and mainstream media publications. She facilitated the Dole Animators project (see www.doleanimators.org @doleanimators). She tweets at @ruthpatrick0.
Reviews for For Whose Benefit?: The Everyday Realities of Welfare Reform
We hear plenty about benefit claimants but it's rare to hear from them. This important book starts with their perspective. It demonstrates - partly through their words - the damage social security reforms have done to people on low-incomes over time. Sadly there is more damage to come in the next few years when a range ... Read more