Trapped in Poverty? - Labour-Market Decisions in Low-Income Households

Informationen zum Autor James was born in Liverpool, where he has now returned to live after several years in Central Europe. Having been mainly based in Budapest and Prague, his experiences there had a major influence on his fiction. He uses real events in history to explore the ideological legacies of the twentieth century from new angles. With his background in journalism and academic interest in creative writing, James shows enormous potential as a novelist. Dark, mysterious, and ethereal - think D M Thomas and Andrei Platonov - readers will appreciate this new, truly original voice. Klappentext How do people on low incomes make decisions about employment and benefit claims? Interview material and economic analysis combine with new theories of the relationship between moral and economic reasoning. Zusammenfassung How do people on low incomes make decisions about employment and benefit claims? Interview material and economic analysis combine with new theories of the relationship between moral and economic reasoning. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Contested territory; Chapter 3 The study, the people and the methods; Chapter 4 The ‘breadwinners’; Chapter 5 ‘Fitting it all in’; Chapter 6 Joint decision-making?; Chapter 7 Community, kinship and housing; Chapter 8 Lone-parent households; Chapter 9 Conclusions: trapped in poverty?;

Product details

• Authors: James Davidson, James Jordan Davidson, Bill Jordan, Helen Kay, Marcus Redley, Redley Marcus
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.1991
• EAN: 9780415068673
• ISBN: 978-0-415-06867-3
• No. of pages: 358
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Poverty & unemployment, Social welfare & social services, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social welfare and social services, Poverty and precarity