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Welfare, inequality and social citizenship : deprivation and affluence in austerity Britain / Daniel Edmiston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edmiston, Daniel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Welfare state--Great Britain--History.
- Welfare state.
- Poverty--Great Britain.
- Poverty.
- Wealth--Great Britain.
- Wealth.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Equality--Great Britain.
- Equality.
- Great Britain--Social conditions--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 217 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "This book, built on a study that explored the lived experiences of poverty and prosperity in the United Kingdom, examines both the material and symbolic significance of welfare austerity and its implications for social citizenship and equality. It combines vivid insights into the everyday lives, attitudes, and behaviors of the rich and the poor with a powerful argument that people living with welfare austerity lack the resources and means of collective identification to engage in sustained political struggle for their identity, rights, and recognition."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Welfare austerity: perjury, punishment and destitution p. 2
- Towards an explanatory account of 'unequal citizenship' p. 7
- Book overview and research design p. 10
- 2 Unequal citizenship? The new social divisions of public welfare p. 15
- Towards neoliberal citizenship: your risk, your reward p. 16
- The new social divisions and distributional effects of public welfare p. 30
- Citizenship status and identity: validation and contingency p. 37
- 3 Lived experiences of poverty and prosperity in austerity Britain p. 43
- Poverty and plenty p. 44
- Work and worklessness p. 50
- Area deprivation and affluence p. 55
- The material and symbolic significance of inequality p. 58
- 4 The sociological imagination of rich and poor citizens p. 67
- Welfare attitudes and inequality: knowledge and attitude formation p. 70
- The 'deserving workless poor': Becky p. 73
- The 'undeserving workless poor': Aimee p. 76
- The 'deserving working poor': James p. 83
- The 'undeserving working rich': Robert p. 86
- Structure versus agency: explaining attitudinal divergence p. 90
- 5 Heterodox citizens? Conceptions of social rights and responsibilities p. 97
- Claiming versus earning the social rights of citizenship p. 100
- Conceiving and enacting responsible citizenship p. 111
- Resistance and resignation to the prevailing citizenship configuration p. 118
- From welfare deficits to institutional disengagement? p. 123
- 6 Identity, difference and citizenship: a fraying tapestry? p. 129
- Identity, difference and liberal citizenship p. 130
- Citizenship and the gendered division of (care) labour p. 132
- Citizenship, race and place p. 135
- Universalism versus particularism p. 138
- The warp and weft of collective (dis-) identification p. 139
- 7 Deliberating the structural determinants of poverty and inequality p. 149
- Poor debate: entrenched attitudes towards poverty and inequality p. 152
- Galvanising public opinion towards socially inclusive ends p. 158
- The rise of anti-social citizenship? p. 170
- Implications for welfare policy and politics p. 174.
- Notes:
- "Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-211) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781447337461
- 1447337468
- OCLC:
- 1005126044
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