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More than a decade on from their conception, this book reflects on
the consequences of income management policies in Australia and New
Zealand. Drawing on a three-year study, it explores the lived
experience of those for whom core welfare benefits and services are
dependent on government conceptions of 'responsible' behaviour. It
analyses whether officially claimed positive intentions and
benefits of the schemes are outweighed by negative impacts that
deepen the poverty and stigma of marginalised and disadvantaged
groups. This novel study considers the future of this form of
welfare conditionality and addresses wider questions of fairness
and social justice.
'This important and illuminating book provides a powerful and
harrowing depiction of the inadequacies of the Australian welfare
system. Its findings challenge the foundations and direction of the
welfare reform agenda.' - Professor Peter Saunders, University of
New South Wales 'This major new study challenges many myths about
life on welfare and in low paid work. It should be read by anyone
concerned with welfare reform.' - Jane Millar, Professor of Social
Policy, University of Bath What is it really like to be unemployed
and on welfare? How do you make ends meet? Does the welfare system
actually help people get back into jobs?Half a Citizen draws on
in-depth interviews with 150 welfare recipients to reveal people
struggling to get by on a low income, the anxieties of balancing
paid work with income support, and how unstable housing makes it
difficult to get ahead. By investigating the lives beyond the
statistics, Half a Citizen also explodes powerful myths and
assumptions on which welfare policy is based. The majority of
welfare recipients interviewed are very active, in paid work,
caring for children or for other family members, and they see
themselves as contributing and participating citizens, even if they
sometimes feel they are being treated as 'half a citizen'. These
stories of resilience and passion bear no resemblance to the clich
d images of dependence, laziness, and social isolation which
underpin social policy and media debate.
'This important and illuminating book provides a powerful and
harrowing depiction of the inadequacies of the Australian welfare
system. Its findings challenge the foundations and direction of the
welfare reform agenda.' - Professor Peter Saunders, University of
New South Wales'This major new study challenges many myths about
life on welfare and in low paid work. It should be read by anyone
concerned with welfare reform.' - Jane Millar, Professor of Social
Policy, University of BathWhat is it really like to be unemployed
and on welfare? How do you make ends meet? Does the welfare system
actually help people get back into jobs?Half a Citizen draws on
in-depth interviews with 150 welfare recipients to reveal people
struggling to get by on a low income, the anxieties of balancing
paid work with income support, and how unstable housing makes it
difficult to get ahead.By investigating the lives beyond the
statistics, Half a Citizen also explodes powerful myths and
assumptions on which welfare policy is based. The majority of
welfare recipients interviewed are very active, in paid work,
caring for children or for other family members, and they see
themselves as contributing and participating citizens, even if they
sometimes feel they are being treated as 'half a citizen'. These
stories of resilience and passion bear no resemblance to the clich
d images of dependence, laziness, and social isolation which
underpin social policy and media debate.
This book brings together leading international researchers to
discuss governmental approaches to analysing social
policies.Analysing Social Policy expands the scope of social policy
analysis using the insights from post-Foucauldian scholarship on
the art of governing in liberal democracies. One of the main
conclusions reached is that policy researchers need to pay much
greater attention to the minutiae of policy reform, and to the
discursive and material ways in which power operates in policy
change. The chapters comprising this book are purposefully written
in a clear, accessible and reflective manner, with each of the
contributions empirically grounded, drawing on social policy
problems and practices in many countries, ranging from North
America to Europe to Australasia. The editors address key concerns
of both policy analysts as well as academic researchers attempting
to locate appropriate theoretical frameworks to make sense of
welfare state restructuring in the 21st century. This book will
appeal to researchers and research students in political science,
social policy, social work and sociology through its demonstration
of how to apply contemporary social theory to research problems. It
will also be of interest to policy scholars around the world who
are involved in analysing the intersections of power, politics and
policy.
This book brings together leading international researchers to
discuss governmental approaches to analysing social
policies.Analysing Social Policy expands the scope of social policy
analysis using the insights from post-Foucauldian scholarship on
the art of governing in liberal democracies. One of the main
conclusions reached is that policy researchers need to pay much
greater attention to the minutiae of policy reform, and to the
discursive and material ways in which power operates in policy
change. The chapters comprising this book are purposefully written
in a clear, accessible and reflective manner, with each of the
contributions empirically grounded, drawing on social policy
problems and practices in many countries, ranging from North
America to Europe to Australasia. The editors address key concerns
of both policy analysts as well as academic researchers attempting
to locate appropriate theoretical frameworks to make sense of
welfare state restructuring in the 21st century. This book will
appeal to researchers and research students in political science,
social policy, social work and sociology through its demonstration
of how to apply contemporary social theory to research problems. It
will also be of interest to policy scholars around the world who
are involved in analysing the intersections of power, politics and
policy.
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