We are often told that mean welfare is what the public wants. Whether or not that's true, this book encourages us to at least be honest about what that entails.
It explores how diverse welfare users navigate the personal and practical hurdles of Australia's so-called social security system, where benefits are deliberately meagre and come with strings attached. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a region of Sydney known for ethnic diversity and socio-economic disadvantage, Emma Mitchell brings her own experience of belonging to a poor family long reliant on welfare to her research.
This book shows the different cultural resources that people bring to welfare encounters with a sensitivity and subtlety that are often missing in both sympathetic and cynical accounts of life on welfare.
| ISBN: | 9781447353690 |
| Publication date: | 16th December 2022 |
| Author: | Emma Mitchell |
| Publisher: | Policy Press an imprint of Bristol University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Genres: |
Social discrimination and social justice Sociology |
We are often told that mean welfare is what the public wants. Whether or not that's true, this book encourages us to at least be honest about what that entails.
Making a Life on Mean Welfare features in the following genres: Social discrimination and social justice, Sociology
Hardback, Ebook. £76.50, down from the £85.00 cover price. Not Available.
Making a Life on Mean Welfare was written by Emma Mitchell and published by Policy Press an imprint of Bristol University Press
Making a Life on Mean Welfare has 208 pages
£76.50, reduced from £85.00. Not Available.