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Welfare that works for women? : mothers' experiences of the conditionality within universal credit /
This book analyses fresh empirical evidence which demonstrates the gendered impacts of the new conditionality regime within Universal Credit. Drawing on in-depth interviews with mothers, it offers a compelling narrative and policy recommendations to make the social citizenship framework in the UK mo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Policy Press shorts. Research.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Welfare that Works for Women?: Mothers' Experiences of the Conditionality within Universal Credit
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of tables and figure
- List of abbreviations
- About the author
- Acknowledgments
- ONE Introduction
- Austerity context
- Motivation for the book
- Researching mothers' experiences
- Structure of the book
- TWO The social security system and gender: unpaid care, paid work and agency
- Introduction
- Gender social security and changing demographics
- Women's dilemma: sameness or difference?
- Potential policies for creating a more gender-inclusive citizenship framework
- A potential way forward: valuing unpaid care, promoting paid work and enlarging agency
- Conclusion
- THREE Universal Credit and the new conditionality regime for mothers
- Introduction
- History of Universal Credit
- Re-orientating the benefits system around paid work
- History of welfare conditionality in the UK
- Universal Credit conditionality regime for lead carers
- Gender concerns
- Conclusion
- FOUR Universal Credit and unpaid care: "we're doing a massive job anyway"
- Introduction
- Overview of the participants' caring responsibilities
- Extent to which caring responsibilities were taken into account
- Forming the Claimant Commitment
- Ongoing interactions with work coaches
- The extensiveness of work-related requirements
- Effects of work-related requirements and paid work on caring responsibilities
- Effects on time and interactions
- Challenges of taking children to the Jobcentre Plus
- Mismatched views: the valuing of unpaid care
- Participants' valuing of unpaid care
- Views on whether unpaid care is valued within the Universal Credit system
- Conclusion
- FIVE Universal Credit and paid work: "you can job search and job search and not get anywhere"
- Introduction
- Paid work aspirations and barriers
- Universal Credit childcare provision
- Employment-related support
- Work coach relationships and support
- Support for long-term paid work aspirations
- Experiences of meeting work-related requirements
- Effects of conditionality on employment and earnings
- Conclusion
- SIX Universal Credit and agency: "there's no element of choice"
- Introduction
- Participants' work-care choices
- Extent to which the Claimant Commitments were negotiated
- Experiences of compulsion over time
- Views on the compulsion within Universal Credit
- Views on choice in the Universal Credit system
- Views on sanctioning mothers
- Responses over time to the compulsion within Universal Credit
- Overall impacts on participants' agency
- Conclusion
- SEVEN Conclusion
- Introduction
- Effects on mothers' caring roles and responsibilities, employment trajectories and agency
- Implications for the UK citizenship framework and social security system
- Policy recommendations
- Conclusion