Polarisation, Underclass and the Welfare State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2375673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bill Jordan (University of Exeter), Marcus Redley (0000-0001-8866-7990, University of Surrey) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 153-176 |
| Publication date | 1994-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/095001709482001 |
| OpenAlex | W2116523869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 27 |
Both the British government and the Labour leadership (through the Commission on Social Justice) have instigated radical reviews of the welfare state. This article criticises the British social scientific research available to these enquiries. It draws on Bill Jordan's recent (as yet unpublished) ESRC review and synthesis of research on poverty and social exclusion, and his and Marcus Redley's ESRC-funded comparative study of decision-making and moral regulation in households. The authors argue that too little scholarly attention has been given to the divergence between better-off and poor people's practices over work and welfare. This dimension of polarization - the way higher-income couples orientate towards property, occupational and private welfare, and low-income couples towards means-tested benefits, in their employment decisions - has important implications, both for the underclass debate and for the future of the welfare state
Algorithm · Commission · Criminology · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Social exclusion · Sociology · State (computer science · Underclass · Welfare · Welfare state · Workfare · Anthropology · Computer Science · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies
European Social Citizenship
Marginalization, deprivation, and fatalism in the Republic of Ireland
A Case of Misrepresentation
Spatial segregation and migration in the city of Athens
Beyond Profit-Motivated Exchange
Approaches towards the study of social polarization in the UK
Unravelling citizenship
Urban poverty in the transitional economy
Transformation of urban socio-spatial structure in socialist market economies
Social Polarisation, Economic Restructuring and Welfare State Regimes
Social Polarization of Households in Contemporary Britain
The best of times for some and the worst of times for others? Gender and class divisions in urban Britain today
How does the welfare state model influence social political attitudes? An analysis of citizens' concrete and abstract attitudes toward poverty
Disadvantage and disenfranchisement in British labour markets
Risk and the welfare state
Is there an underclass in Britain
Welfare Dependency, the Enterprise Culture and Self-Employed Survival
Economic Reasoning and Family Relations
Local Exchange and Trading Systems
Employment, Unemployment and Social Polarization
Work, employment and society through the lens of moral economy
Towards a new perspective on deliberate self-harm in an area of multiple deprivation
Are New Right Policies Sustainable? 'Back to Basics' and Public Choice
Labours of Love
The Theory of choice
Losing ground
White-Collar Proletariat
The Truly Disadvantaged
Contradictions of the Welfare State
Weapons of the Weak
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
Money and Marriage
A General Theory of Exploitation and Class
Language, self, and social order
Trapped in Poverty? Labour-market decisions in Low-Income Households
Prospects for Social Europe
The Division of Labour in Society
Local social polarization
The Social Segregation of the Long-Term Unemployed in Hartlepool
The Interaction Order Sui Generis
Unemployment and Informal Support
Work, Employment and Society
Household Spending, Personal Spending and the Control of Money in Marriage
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,03 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2018 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |