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.

About the author

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

Summary

Drawing on a wealth of qualitative longitudinal evidence, this book casts light on women's lived experiences of welfare and work. It uncovers the hidden gendered bias of conditional welfare reforms to challenge dominant political discourses, policy design and practice norms.

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Wright, Sharon (University of Glasgow) Wright
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2023
• EAN: 9781447347743
• ISBN: 978-1-4473-4774-3
• No. of pages: 190
• Dimensions: 234 mm x 156 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 312 g
• Illustrations: 9 Tables, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
• Series: Welfare Conditionality
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories