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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.

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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

Women and Welfare Conditionality

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      Publisher Bristol University Press
      Published 30 October 2023
      ISBN-13 9781447347736
      978-1447347736
      ISBN-10 1447347730
      Also in:
      Gender studies: women and girls Poverty and precarity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      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

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