Single Mothers and the Welfare Trap
Work, Care and Civil Society

By (author) Helen Blakely

ISBN13: 9781447353645

Imprint: Policy Press

Publisher: Bristol University Press

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Published: 01/04/2025

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The original contribution is the focus on community groups in the governance of people receiving state benefits and services and the deep ethnographic work with both mothers and community workers.
Introduction; History and Biography; Rhetorical Imaginings; The Welfare Eligibility Interview; Pragmatic Mitigation; Professional Ideologies and Social Pathologies; “Getting On”: A Life a Little More Ordinary; Multiple Allegiances and Fractured Selves; Conclusion: Reflections.
  • Sociology: work & labour
  • Civil rights & citizenship
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
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