Explores behind the unemployment statistics to shed new light on what it is like to live on a low income and experience the brunt of welfare reform, exploding the persistent myth that welfare recipients don't contribute to society.
Explores behind the unemployment statistics to shed new light on what it is like to live on a low income and experience the brunt of welfare reform, exploding the persistent myth that welfare recipients don't contribute to society.
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 (Ashgate, 2011). 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 (UNSW Press, 2009). JENNY CHALMERS is Senior Research Fellow at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales. SONIA MARTIN is is Lecturer in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning at RMIT University. GREG MARSTON is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and Human Services, The University of Queensland.
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Acknowledgements List of abbreviations List of tables and figures 1. The receiving end of welfare 2. Poverty, deprivation, resilience 3. Housing 4. Social connections 5. Working lives 6. Barriers to and support for working 7. Welfare as work: Dealing with Centrelink 8. Values and ethics about income support Afterword: In the no-standing zone Appendix 1: The research project Appendix 2: The characteristics of our participants Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements List of abbreviations List of tables and figures 1. The receiving end of welfare 2. Poverty, deprivation, resilience 3. Housing 4. Social connections 5. Working lives 6. Barriers to and support for working 7. Welfare as work: Dealing with Centrelink 8. Values and ethics about income support Afterword: In the no-standing zone Appendix 1: The research project Appendix 2: The characteristics of our participants Notes Bibliography Index
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