Welfare-to-work Policies and the Experience of Employed Single Mothers on Income Support in Australia: Where are the Benefits?

Australian Social Work

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-86

  Grahame, Teresa ^a   Marston, Greg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Recognition; Relational Autonomy; Single Mothers; Welfare; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858258476     PISSN: 0312407X     EISSN: 14470748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0312407X.2011.604093     Document Type: Article

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