From social security to individual responsibility (Part Two): Writing off poor women's work in the welfare reform act 2009

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 81-93

  Grabham, Emily ^a   Smith, Jenny ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child poverty; Conditionality; Feminism; Lone motherhood; New labour; Poor women; Welfare reform; Workfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952018976     PISSN: 09649069     EISSN: 14699621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09649069.2010.484226     Document Type: Article

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