Lone Parents and Welfare-to-work Conditionality
Necessary, Just, Effective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12901876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Whitworth (0000-0001-6119-9373, Whitworth Hospital, corresponding author), Julia Griggs |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 124-140 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics and Social Welfare (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-6535 • E-ISSN: 1749-6543 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17496535.2013.779001 |
| OpenAlex | W2011939386 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 20 |
Since the 1990s OECD nations have witnessed a rapid expansion in the use of conditionality within welfare to work programmes in the shift towards ‘activating’ welfare regimes. This trend raises a number of interrelated normative and empirical questions which we crystallise in the dimensions of necessity, justice and effectiveness. Lone parents in the UK make an instructive case study within which to assess these issues given that they have experienced wholesale change in the work expectations and demands placed upon them since the late 1990s. This article traces the evolution and justificatory ‘policy stories’ behind these reforms as well as evidence around their employment, income and well-being outcomes for lone parents. It concludes that it is extremely difficult to reconcile the research evidence with the persistent and strengthening policy claims of both New Labour and Coalition governments that current welfare to work conditionality for lone parents is necessary, just or effective
Conditionality · Economic Justice · Economics · Market economy · Microeconomics · Normative · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Welfare · Welfare reform · Work (physics · Workfare · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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| Unique citing works | 24 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |