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For Whose Benefit?: The Everyday Realities of Welfare Reform

Posted By: roxul
Date: 20 Nov 2024 05:56:38
For Whose Benefit?: The Everyday Realities of Welfare Reform

Ruth Patrick, "For Whose Benefit?: The Everyday Realities of Welfare Reform"
English | ISBN: 1447333462 | 2017 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB

What does day-to-day life involve for those who receive out-of-work benefits? Is the political focus on moving people from ‘welfare’ and into work the right one? And do mainstream political and media accounts of the ‘problem’ of ‘welfare’ accurately reflect lived realities?
For whose benefit? The everyday realities of welfare reform explores these questions by talking to those directly affected by recent reforms. Ruth Patrick interviewed single parents, disabled people and young jobseekers on benefits repeatedly over five years to find out how they experienced the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, and whether the welfare state still offers meaningful protection and security in times of need. She reflects on the mismatch between the portrayal of ‘welfare’ and everyday experiences, and the consequences of this for the UK’s ongoing welfare reform programme.
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