Eithne Mclaughlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799276 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eithne Mclaughlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eithne |
| FAMILY NAME | Mclaughlin |
| SIGNATURE | MCLAUGHLIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Understanding Unemployment: New Perspectives on Active Labour Market Policies
Britain remains an 'economy of unemployment', symptomatic of an inefficient labour market founded on inequalities of locality, sex, race and age. This offers a new multidisciplinary perspective on the nature of a continuing crisis.
The Equality Chameleon: Reflections on Social Identity, Passing, and Groupism
This paper explores issues of social and multiple identity and their implications for equality law and practice. The paper considers three principal dilemmas – passing, groupism and the limitations of participatory justice as a political strategy for the achievement of equality. The objective is to contribute a ‘thick’ understanding of issues of identity and identification with which to inform and situate the development of the UK's ‘single equal…
Introduction: Themed Section on Equality
Equality law is in a state of ferment in the UK with a Westminster bill having laid the ground for a single Equality and Human Rights Commission, new European Directives on Equality, a debate in Northern Ireland over the adoption of a Single Equality Act (OFMDFM, 2004) and a stalled debate in Northern Ireland over a Bill of Rights. (O'Connell, 2006: 3)
From Negative to Positive Equality Duties: The Development and Constitutionalisation of Equality Provisions in the UK
This paper reviews the development and nature of one of the two components of the UK's equality regime – equality law. The origins of equality law lie in the postwar consensus on non-discrimination. The paper reviews the limitations of non-discrimination or negative equality duties. It documents the expansion of equality law at the turn of the twentieth/twenty-first century, when seven UK Acts and two European Directives introduced additional neg…
Equality, Social Justice and Social Welfare: A Road Map to the New Egalitarianisms
This paper summarises the way equality has featured in the disciplines of social policy and political theory leading up to the presentation of a new egalitarianian framework for thinking about and acting for equality. The paper presents a broadly chronological, integrated review of the place of equality within the subjects concerned. The longstanding problems of universalism and targeting are themes which recur throughout, and in New Labour's app…
Legacies of caring: The experiences and circumstances of ex-carers
Although there is extensive literature on carers and their care-giving role, the circumstances of carers after care-giving remains largely uninvestigated. This paper documents the socio-economic and psychological legacies of care-giving among 157 ex-carers who were included in a larger national study of the effectiveness and targeting of social security help to carers, which was carried out in 1989. Therefore, the sample included only those whose…
Ten best practices, eight social rights: Creating social justice for children and families standards and benchmarks for Social Justice Community Action Plans (SJCAPs)
This article uses a number of the outcomes of the United Nations Decade for the Elimination of Poverty (1997-2006) to make the case for the development of Social Justice Community Action Plans by national and subnational public authorities. SJCAPs would encompass the promotion of equality and equity, the reduction of poverty, the reduction of non-economic inequalities, the eradication of discrimination in all its forms and the enjoyment of all fu…
The Rise and Fall of the UK’s First Tax Credit: The Working Families Tax Credit 1998–2000
The Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC), introduced in 1998/9, was regarded as the most important and easily the most redistributive measure introduced by the New Labour administration elected in 1997. WFTC is, however, scheduled to end, and to be replaced by another tax credit in 2003. This paper reviews the birth, brief life and “death” of WFTC in the period 1998–2000 and examines the structure of eligibility for WFTC in one UK region
Paying for Long-Term Domiciliary Care: A Comparative Perspective
Concerns over growing numbers and proportions of older people in industrialised societies have prompted interest in the development of cheaper ways of providing long-term care for older people. While debate in the UK is currently focused on the costs of residential and nursing care, other European and Nordic countries have introduced schemes designed to encourage or sustain the provision of ‘social’ care by family members, friends and ‘volunteers…
The Demise of the Institution of the Job
Principles and practice of social security payments for care
This article examines the dimensions which determine whether national social security systems make payments towards the costs of long‐term care needs and whether they do so where these needs are met within the family; what kinds of payments are made and to whom; and what levels these payments are set at. The article is based on empirical material from five European Union countries (the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Italy and Germany). We argue…
Paying for Informal Care: Lessons From Finland
Growing numbers of elderly people, combined with falling birthrates, have generated increas ing interest within most western European and Scandinavian countries in measures which might increase the supply of care-giving labour while at the same time reducing the unit costs of that labour. To what extent, and how, might expensive formal service provision be replaced by less costly and more plentiful help from informal sources; and what is the role…
Women and the family in Northern Ireland
Oppositional Poverty: The Quantitative/Qualitative Divide and other Dichotomies
Despite increased recognition that the dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative approaches (and related dichotomies) may be less than useful, such divisions remain entrenched in the core social science disciplines. Theoretical and methodological attempts to move out of and beyond dichotomous frames of reference have not yet led to reconstruction of the social science enterprise. Application of Goody's analysis of the impact of literacy on h…
Work and Welfare Benefits: Social Security, Employment and Unemployment in the 1990s
This paper considers social security policy and structures in relation to the labour market of the late 1980s and 1990s. The paper begins by describing the labour market of the late 1980s and summarising projective descriptions of labour demand in the 1990s. The second section of the paper reports on recent research examining the labour supply behaviour of long term unemployed people, drawing out the role of social security policy and structures …
The Employment Lottery: Risk and Social Security Benefits
Income support policy towards unemployed families is based on certain assumptions about financial incentives and how these affect behaviour. In order to examine how unemployed people actually perceive financial incentives 55 unemployed families were interviewed in depth about their perceptions, beliefs and attitudes. The families were willing to accept fairly low wages but the main barrier to taking a low-paid job and supplementing wages with mea…
Women and the family in Northern Ireland
Oppositional Poverty: The Quantitative/Qualitative Divide and other Dichotomies
Despite increased recognition that the dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative approaches (and related dichotomies) may be less than useful, such divisions remain entrenched in the core social science disciplines. Theoretical and methodological attempts to move out of and beyond dichotomous frames of reference have not yet led to reconstruction of the social science enterprise. Application of Goody's analysis of the impact of literacy on h…
From Negative to Positive Equality Duties: The Development and Constitutionalisation of Equality Provisions in the UK
This paper reviews the development and nature of one of the two components of the UK's equality regime – equality law. The origins of equality law lie in the postwar consensus on non-discrimination. The paper reviews the limitations of non-discrimination or negative equality duties. It documents the expansion of equality law at the turn of the twentieth/twenty-first century, when seven UK Acts and two European Directives introduced additional neg…
Principles and practice of social security payments for care
This article examines the dimensions which determine whether national social security systems make payments towards the costs of long‐term care needs and whether they do so where these needs are met within the family; what kinds of payments are made and to whom; and what levels these payments are set at. The article is based on empirical material from five European Union countries (the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Italy and Germany). We argue…
Legacies of caring: The experiences and circumstances of ex-carers
Although there is extensive literature on carers and their care-giving role, the circumstances of carers after care-giving remains largely uninvestigated. This paper documents the socio-economic and psychological legacies of care-giving among 157 ex-carers who were included in a larger national study of the effectiveness and targeting of social security help to carers, which was carried out in 1989. Therefore, the sample included only those whose…
Paying for Informal Care: Lessons From Finland
Growing numbers of elderly people, combined with falling birthrates, have generated increas ing interest within most western European and Scandinavian countries in measures which might increase the supply of care-giving labour while at the same time reducing the unit costs of that labour. To what extent, and how, might expensive formal service provision be replaced by less costly and more plentiful help from informal sources; and what is the role…
The Rise and Fall of the UK’s First Tax Credit: The Working Families Tax Credit 1998–2000
The Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC), introduced in 1998/9, was regarded as the most important and easily the most redistributive measure introduced by the New Labour administration elected in 1997. WFTC is, however, scheduled to end, and to be replaced by another tax credit in 2003. This paper reviews the birth, brief life and “death” of WFTC in the period 1998–2000 and examines the structure of eligibility for WFTC in one UK region
Paying for Long-Term Domiciliary Care: A Comparative Perspective
Concerns over growing numbers and proportions of older people in industrialised societies have prompted interest in the development of cheaper ways of providing long-term care for older people. While debate in the UK is currently focused on the costs of residential and nursing care, other European and Nordic countries have introduced schemes designed to encourage or sustain the provision of ‘social’ care by family members, friends and ‘volunteers…
Work and Welfare Benefits: Social Security, Employment and Unemployment in the 1990s
This paper considers social security policy and structures in relation to the labour market of the late 1980s and 1990s. The paper begins by describing the labour market of the late 1980s and summarising projective descriptions of labour demand in the 1990s. The second section of the paper reports on recent research examining the labour supply behaviour of long term unemployed people, drawing out the role of social security policy and structures …
The Equality Chameleon: Reflections on Social Identity, Passing, and Groupism
This paper explores issues of social and multiple identity and their implications for equality law and practice. The paper considers three principal dilemmas – passing, groupism and the limitations of participatory justice as a political strategy for the achievement of equality. The objective is to contribute a ‘thick’ understanding of issues of identity and identification with which to inform and situate the development of the UK's ‘single equal…
Equality, Social Justice and Social Welfare: A Road Map to the New Egalitarianisms
This paper summarises the way equality has featured in the disciplines of social policy and political theory leading up to the presentation of a new egalitarianian framework for thinking about and acting for equality. The paper presents a broadly chronological, integrated review of the place of equality within the subjects concerned. The longstanding problems of universalism and targeting are themes which recur throughout, and in New Labour's app…
The Employment Lottery: Risk and Social Security Benefits
Income support policy towards unemployed families is based on certain assumptions about financial incentives and how these affect behaviour. In order to examine how unemployed people actually perceive financial incentives 55 unemployed families were interviewed in depth about their perceptions, beliefs and attitudes. The families were willing to accept fairly low wages but the main barrier to taking a low-paid job and supplementing wages with mea…
The Employment Lottery: Risk and Social Security Benefits
Income support policy towards unemployed families is based on certain assumptions about financial incentives and how these affect behaviour. In order to examine how unemployed people actually perceive financial incentives 55 unemployed families were interviewed in depth about their perceptions, beliefs and attitudes. The families were willing to accept fairly low wages but the main barrier to taking a low-paid job and supplementing wages with mea…
Oppositional Poverty: The Quantitative/Qualitative Divide and other Dichotomies
Despite increased recognition that the dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative approaches (and related dichotomies) may be less than useful, such divisions remain entrenched in the core social science disciplines. Theoretical and methodological attempts to move out of and beyond dichotomous frames of reference have not yet led to reconstruction of the social science enterprise. Application of Goody's analysis of the impact of literacy on h…
Work and Welfare Benefits: Social Security, Employment and Unemployment in the 1990s
This paper considers social security policy and structures in relation to the labour market of the late 1980s and 1990s. The paper begins by describing the labour market of the late 1980s and summarising projective descriptions of labour demand in the 1990s. The second section of the paper reports on recent research examining the labour supply behaviour of long term unemployed people, drawing out the role of social security policy and structures …
Paying for Informal Care: Lessons From Finland
Growing numbers of elderly people, combined with falling birthrates, have generated increas ing interest within most western European and Scandinavian countries in measures which might increase the supply of care-giving labour while at the same time reducing the unit costs of that labour. To what extent, and how, might expensive formal service provision be replaced by less costly and more plentiful help from informal sources; and what is the role…
Women and the family in Northern Ireland
The Demise of the Institution of the Job
Principles and practice of social security payments for care
This article examines the dimensions which determine whether national social security systems make payments towards the costs of long‐term care needs and whether they do so where these needs are met within the family; what kinds of payments are made and to whom; and what levels these payments are set at. The article is based on empirical material from five European Union countries (the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Italy and Germany). We argue…
Paying for Long-Term Domiciliary Care: A Comparative Perspective
Concerns over growing numbers and proportions of older people in industrialised societies have prompted interest in the development of cheaper ways of providing long-term care for older people. While debate in the UK is currently focused on the costs of residential and nursing care, other European and Nordic countries have introduced schemes designed to encourage or sustain the provision of ‘social’ care by family members, friends and ‘volunteers…
The Rise and Fall of the UK’s First Tax Credit: The Working Families Tax Credit 1998–2000
The Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC), introduced in 1998/9, was regarded as the most important and easily the most redistributive measure introduced by the New Labour administration elected in 1997. WFTC is, however, scheduled to end, and to be replaced by another tax credit in 2003. This paper reviews the birth, brief life and “death” of WFTC in the period 1998–2000 and examines the structure of eligibility for WFTC in one UK region
Ten best practices, eight social rights: Creating social justice for children and families standards and benchmarks for Social Justice Community Action Plans (SJCAPs)
This article uses a number of the outcomes of the United Nations Decade for the Elimination of Poverty (1997-2006) to make the case for the development of Social Justice Community Action Plans by national and subnational public authorities. SJCAPs would encompass the promotion of equality and equity, the reduction of poverty, the reduction of non-economic inequalities, the eradication of discrimination in all its forms and the enjoyment of all fu…
The Equality Chameleon: Reflections on Social Identity, Passing, and Groupism
This paper explores issues of social and multiple identity and their implications for equality law and practice. The paper considers three principal dilemmas – passing, groupism and the limitations of participatory justice as a political strategy for the achievement of equality. The objective is to contribute a ‘thick’ understanding of issues of identity and identification with which to inform and situate the development of the UK's ‘single equal…
Introduction: Themed Section on Equality
Equality law is in a state of ferment in the UK with a Westminster bill having laid the ground for a single Equality and Human Rights Commission, new European Directives on Equality, a debate in Northern Ireland over the adoption of a Single Equality Act (OFMDFM, 2004) and a stalled debate in Northern Ireland over a Bill of Rights. (O'Connell, 2006: 3)
From Negative to Positive Equality Duties: The Development and Constitutionalisation of Equality Provisions in the UK
This paper reviews the development and nature of one of the two components of the UK's equality regime – equality law. The origins of equality law lie in the postwar consensus on non-discrimination. The paper reviews the limitations of non-discrimination or negative equality duties. It documents the expansion of equality law at the turn of the twentieth/twenty-first century, when seven UK Acts and two European Directives introduced additional neg…
Equality, Social Justice and Social Welfare: A Road Map to the New Egalitarianisms
This paper summarises the way equality has featured in the disciplines of social policy and political theory leading up to the presentation of a new egalitarianian framework for thinking about and acting for equality. The paper presents a broadly chronological, integrated review of the place of equality within the subjects concerned. The longstanding problems of universalism and targeting are themes which recur throughout, and in New Labour's app…
Legacies of caring: The experiences and circumstances of ex-carers
Although there is extensive literature on carers and their care-giving role, the circumstances of carers after care-giving remains largely uninvestigated. This paper documents the socio-economic and psychological legacies of care-giving among 157 ex-carers who were included in a larger national study of the effectiveness and targeting of social security help to carers, which was carried out in 1989. Therefore, the sample included only those whose…
Understanding Unemployment: New Perspectives on Active Labour Market Policies
Britain remains an 'economy of unemployment', symptomatic of an inefficient labour market founded on inequalities of locality, sex, race and age. This offers a new multidisciplinary perspective on the nature of a continuing crisis.
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