Half a Citizen: Life on welfare in Australia - John Murphy - Boeken - Taylor & Francis - 9781742376059 - 1 juli 2011
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Half a Citizen: Life on welfare in Australia 1e uitgave

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Half a Citizen: Life on welfare in Australia 1e uitgave

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.


252 pages

Media Boeken     Paperback Book   (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug)
Vrijgegeven 1 juli 2011
ISBN13 9781742376059
Uitgevers Taylor & Francis
Pagina's 252
Afmetingen 152 × 229 × 228 mm   ·   470 g
Taal en grammatica Engels  

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