Half a Citizen: Life on Welfare in Australia - Brossura

Murphy, John

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ISBN 10: 1742376053 ISBN 13: 9781742376059

Casa editrice: Allen & Unwin, 2011

Riassunto

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 clichéd images of dependence, laziness, and social isolation which underpin social policy and media debate.

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L'autore:

John Murphy is associate professor in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. His most recent book is A Decent Provision: Australian Welfare Policy, 1870 to 1949. Suellen Murray is associate professor in the Centre for Applied Social Research at RMIT University. Her most recent book, with John Murphy and others, is After the Orphanage: Beyond the Children's Home. Jenny Chalmers is senior research vellow at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales. Sonia Martin is manager, Through School to Work in the Research and Policy Centre at the Brotherhood of St Laurence and honorary fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Greg Marston is associate professor in the School of Social Work and Human Services, The University of Queensland.

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• Editore: Allen & Unwin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1742376053
• ISBN 13: 9781742376059
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 256