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Women and Welfare Conditionality: Lived Experiences of Benefit Sanctions, Work and Welfare
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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Women and Welfare Conditionality: Lived Experiences of Benefit Sanctions, Work and Welfare
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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Women and Welfare Conditionality: Lived Experiences of Benefit Sanctions, Work and Welfare

Women and Welfare Conditionality: Lived Experiences of Benefit Sanctions, Work and Welfare

by Sharon Wright
Women and Welfare Conditionality: Lived Experiences of Benefit Sanctions, Work and Welfare

Women and Welfare Conditionality: Lived Experiences of Benefit Sanctions, Work and Welfare

by Sharon Wright

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781447347743
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Publication date: 11/28/2023
Series: Welfare Conditionality
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 190
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sharon Wright is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Glasgow.

Table of Contents

1. What Does Work-based Welfare Reform Mean for Women?

2. Re-Theorising Conditional Welfare As Gendered Lived Experience and Street-Level Practice

3. Policy Context: The Hidden Gendered Impacts of Conditional Welfare Reforms

4. Re-Writing Retirement As ‘Work Experience’: Older Women’s Gendered Encounters With the Work Ethic

5. Crushing Conditionality: Women Living Through Heavily Enforced Work-Related Conditionality

6. In the Shadow of Sanctions: Disciplining Women and Children for Violating Male-Defined Work Norms

7. Conclusions

Appendix 1: The Welfare Conditionality Study

Appendix 2: Sanctions Overviews

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This is an important book in the tradition of scholarship on women and the welfare state. It renders the gendered subtext of contemporary welfare policy text.” Eve Worth, University of Exeter

“The experience and impact of conditionality rules in social security on women are brought vividly to life in this compelling and original research. A superb book, full of insight and robust analysis.” Jane Millar, University of Bath

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