Workfare versus reconceptualizing work
Rethinking social security reform for lone mothers in Hong Kong
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9974331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lai Ching Leung (0000-0002-3630-807X, City University of Hong Kong, corresponding author), Lai-Ching Leung (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Kam Wah Chan (0000-0002-8138-723X, Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Kam-wah Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-122 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0020872812461044 |
| OpenAlex | W2052574001 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
Workfare has become a dominant social welfare approach in dealing with unemployment in various cities around the world. Recent social security reforms for lone mothers on benefits in Hong Kong are examples of the application of workfare in practice. This article argues that workfare strategy based on an outdated industrial-productivist conception of work contributes to the marginalization and undervaluation of work performed by disadvantaged groups. A reconceptualization of work will help to open up new alternatives in social work practice
Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Social security · Social Welfare · Sociology · Unemployment · Welfare · Work (physics · Workfare · Employment and Welfare Studies · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Reclaiming Work
Anti-Oppressive Social Work Theory and Practice
A Labour of Love
The Sociology of Housework
Rethinking the social development approach in the context of East Asian social welfare
Deconstructing the Asian welfare model
In Search of a Welfare Democracy
The Meaning of Work in Chinese Contexts
Hong Kong
Contestation and Accommodation
Welfare Reform in the United States
Against work
Children (but not women) first
New Labour and the third way in the British welfare state
Reconceptualizing Women's Work
(Not) Taking Account of Precarious Employment
Activation as a Common Framework for Social Policies towards Lone Parents
Inside the Household
Community economic development
The social impact of work-integration social enterprise in Hong Kong
The Function and Meaning of Work and the Job
When Work Doesn't Work
Re-conceptualising Welfare-To-Work for People with Multiple Problems and Needs
Gender and New Labour's Social Policies
Job Scarcity
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |