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mothers' experiences of the conditionality within universal credit
Front Cover -- Welfare that Works for Women?: Mothers' Experiences of the Conditionality within Universal Credit -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of tables and figure -- List of abbreviations -- About the author -- Acknowledgments -- ONE Introduction -- Austerity context -- Motivation for the book -- Researching mothers' experiences -- Structure of the book -- TWO The social security system and gender: unpaid care, paid work and agency -- Introduction -- Gender social security and changing demographics -- Women's dilemma: sameness or difference?
Potential policies for creating a more gender-inclusive citizenship framework -- A potential way forward: valuing unpaid care, promoting paid work and enlarging agency -- Conclusion -- THREE Universal Credit and the new conditionality regime for mothers -- Introduction -- History of Universal Credit -- Re-orientating the benefits system around paid work -- History of welfare conditionality in the UK -- Universal Credit conditionality regime for lead carers -- Gender concerns -- Conclusion -- FOUR Universal Credit and unpaid care: "we're doing a massive job anyway" -- Introduction
Overview of the participants' caring responsibilities -- Extent to which caring responsibilities were taken into account -- Forming the Claimant Commitment -- Ongoing interactions with work coaches -- The extensiveness of work-related requirements -- Effects of work-related requirements and paid work on caring responsibilities -- Effects on time and interactions -- Challenges of taking children to the Jobcentre Plus -- Mismatched views: the valuing of unpaid care -- Participants' valuing of unpaid care -- Views on whether unpaid care is valued within the Universal Credit system -- Conclusion
FIVE Universal Credit and paid work: "you can job search and job search and not get anywhere" -- Introduction -- Paid work aspirations and barriers -- Universal Credit childcare provision -- Employment-related support -- Work coach relationships and support -- Support for long-term paid work aspirations -- Experiences of meeting work-related requirements -- Effects of conditionality on employment and earnings -- Conclusion -- SIX Universal Credit and agency: "there's no element of choice" -- Introduction -- Participants' work-care choices
Extent to which the Claimant Commitments were negotiated -- Experiences of compulsion over time -- Views on the compulsion within Universal Credit -- Views on choice in the Universal Credit system -- Views on sanctioning mothers -- Responses over time to the compulsion within Universal Credit -- Overall impacts on participants' agency -- Conclusion -- SEVEN Conclusion -- Introduction -- Effects on mothers' caring roles and responsibilities, employment trajectories and agency -- Implications for the UK citizenship framework and social security system -- Policy recommendations -- Conclusion
[Place of publication not identified] : POLICY PRESS, 2023