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Welfare that works for women? : mothers' experiences of the conditionality within universal credit /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andersen, Kate (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2023.
Series:Policy Press shorts. Research.
Subjects:
Income maintenance programs > Great Britain.
Social security > Great Britain.
Women > Services for > Great Britain.
Women > Great Britain > Social conditions > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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