Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Series preface
- 1 Framing welfare conditionality
- 2 Why Income Management?
- 3 Barriers to implementing Compulsory Income Management
- 4 Identity and emotion
- 5 Procedural, consumer and contractual rights, and access to justice
- 6 Resistance and reform: individual and collective agency
- 7 Voluntary Income Management and financial education
- 8 Recalibrating social security and reimagining work
- References
- Index
Series preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Series preface
- 1 Framing welfare conditionality
- 2 Why Income Management?
- 3 Barriers to implementing Compulsory Income Management
- 4 Identity and emotion
- 5 Procedural, consumer and contractual rights, and access to justice
- 6 Resistance and reform: individual and collective agency
- 7 Voluntary Income Management and financial education
- 8 Recalibrating social security and reimagining work
- References
- Index
Summary
In a world that is rapidly changing, increasingly connected and uncertain, there is a need to develop a shared applied policy analysis of welfare regimes around the globe. Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy is a series of books that addresses broad questions around how nation states and transnational policy actors manage globally shared challenges. In so doing, the book series includes a wide array of contributions, which discuss comparative social policy history, development and reform within a broad international context. Initially conceived during a meeting of the UK Social Policy Association Executive Committee in 2016, the book series invites innovative research by leading experts on all world-regions and global social policy actors and aims to fulfil the following objectives: it encourages crossdisciplinary approaches that develop theoretical frameworks reaching across individual world-regions and global actors; it seeks to provide evidence-based good practice examples that cross the bridge between academic research and practice; not least, it aims to provide a platform in which a wide range of innovative methodological approaches, may it be national case studies, larger-N comparative studies, or global social policy studies can be introduced to aid the evaluation, design, and implementation of future social policies.
Although social security remains one of the primary vehicles to alleviate poverty and enhance individuals’ wellbeing, there is still fierce debate regarding the ‘deservingness’ and ‘undeservingness’ of cash welfare benefits worldwide. Across the political spectrum, the discourse on ‘welfare conditionality’ has embraced the notions of activation, reciprocity, communal responsibility, and even punitivism. In this latest contribution to the book series, Marston, Humpage, Peterie, Mendes, Bielefeld, and Staines offer a fascinating and timely account of the lived experiences of welfare conditionality based on a large number of interviews with income management participants and community stakeholders in Australia and New Zealand. Income management or, in the authors’ words, the “widespread quarantining of social security payments” has been a unique feature of the Australian and New Zealand conditionality experience. Still, it carries much broader implications for philosophical and applied debates on social citizenship in other welfare geographies. By taking a critical approach that emphasises the value of bottom-up policy making, personal autonomy, relational and procedural justice, the authors demonstrate the practical fallacies of an ideological reliance on ever ‘thinning’ social rights in rapidly changing and digitising labour markets.
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- Compulsory Income Management in Australia and New ZealandMore Harm than Good?, pp. x - xiiPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2022