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Author: Joel F. Handler
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780765603333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures case studies by twelve scholar activists who work in the areas of social welfare and low-wage labour policy, with a particular focus on low-income women with children.
Author: Kate Andersen
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2023-01-03
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1447366387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor generations women have experienced disadvantage in the paid labour market, the devaluation of their unpaid caring roles and multiple constraints on their agency. This book analyses fresh empirical evidence which demonstrates the gendered impacts of the new conditionality regime within Universal Credit. It shows how the regime affects women's unpaid caring roles, their position in the paid labour market and their agency regarding engagement in unpaid care and paid work. Ultimately, it highlights the impacts on low-income women's position in the UK social security system and society. Drawing on in-depth interviews with mothers, this book offers a compelling narrative and crucial policy recommendations to improve the gendered impact of Universal Credit and make the social citizenship framework in the UK more inclusive of women.
Author: Sharon Hays
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-11-04
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0195176014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text explores the impact of recent welfare reform on motherhood, marriage, and work in women's lives. It also focuses on what welfare reform reveals about work and family life, and its impact on us all.
Author: Mimi Abramovitz
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2000-03
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 1583670084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbramovitz argues that welfare reform has penalized single motherhood; exposed poor women to the risks of hunger, hopelessness, and male violence: swept them into low paid jobs, and left many former recipients unable to make ends meet.".
Author: Heidi I. Hartmann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1135803234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFind out how welfare reform has affected women living at the poverty level Women, Work, and Poverty presents the latest information on women living at or below the poverty level and the changes that need to be made in public policy to allow them to rise above their economic hardships. Using a wide range of research methods, including in-depth interviews, focus groups, small-scale surveys, and analysis of personnel records, the book explores different aspects of women’s poverty since the passage of the 1986 welfare reform bill. Anthropologists, economists, political scientists, sociologists, and social workers examine marriage, divorce, children and child care, employment and work schedules, disabilities, mental health, and education, and look at income support programs, such as welfare and unemployment insurance. Women, Work, and Poverty illuminates the changes in the causes of women’s poverty following welfare reform in the United States, using up-to-date research that’s both qualitative and quantitative. Taking racial and ethnic diversity into account, the book’s contributors examine new findings on the feminization of poverty, the role of children and the lack of child care as an obstacle to employment, labor market policies that can reduce poverty and improve gender wage equality, sex and race segregation in the labor market, and the low quality of jobs available to low income women. Women, Work, and Poverty examines: marriage, motherhood, and work pay equity and living wage reforms community resources welfare status and child care acquiring higher education advancing women of color income security repaying debt after divorce gender differences in spendable income women’s job loss Women, Work, and Poverty is an invaluable aid for academics working in social work, social policy, women’s studies, economics, sociology, and political science, and for policy researchers, anti-poverty activists, and women’s leaders.
Author: Jane Henrici
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2006-10-26
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0816525129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe welfare reform legislation enacted in 1996 was applauded by many for the successes it had in dramatically reducing the number of people receiving public assistance, most of whom were women with children. Today, however, more than a decade later, these successes seem far less spectacular. Although the total number of welfare recipients has dropped by more than fifty percent nationwide, evidence shows that poverty has actually deepened. Many hardworking women are no better off for having returned to the workplace. In Doing Without, Jane Henrici brings together nine contributions to tell the story of welfare reform from inside the lives of the women who live with it. Cases from Chicago and Boston are combined with a focus on San Antonio from one of the largest multi-city investigations on welfare reform ever undertaken. The contributors argue that the employment opportunities available to poorer women, particularly single mothers and ethnic minorities, are insufficient to lift their families out of poverty. Typically marked by variable hours, inadequate wages, and short-term assignments, both employment and training programs fail to provide stability or the kinds of benefitsÑsuch as health insurance, sick days, and childcare optionsÑthat are necessary to sustain both work and family life. The chapters also examine the challenges that the women who seek assistance, and those who work in public and private agencies to provide it, together must face as they navigate ever-changing requirements and regulations, decipher alterations in Medicaid, and apply for training and education. Contributors urge that the nation should repair the social safety net for women in transition and offer genuine access to jobs with wages that actually meet the cost of living.
Author: Barry Bluestone
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 118
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kimberly J. Morgan
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780804754149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains why countries have adopted different policies for working parents through a comparative historical study of four nations: France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States.
Author: Linda Gordon
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2012-11
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0299126633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays about women and welfare in America, this book discusses how welfare programmes affect women and how gender relations have influenced the structure of such programmes. Issues such as race and class are also discussed.
Author: Mimi Abramovitz
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780896085510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important book looks at the changes in AFDC, Social Security, and Unemployment Insurance, and welfare "reform." This new edition reveals how welfare policy scapegoats women more than ever to justify widespread retrenchment and to divert the public's attention from the real causes of the nation's mounting economic woes.
