{"title":"Book Review: The Marketisation of Welfare to Work in Ireland: Governing Activation at the Street Level by Michael McGann","authors":"J. Wiggan","doi":"10.1177/02610183231190793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231190793","url":null,"abstract":"careers (Hansen and Lauridsen, 2004; Coderre-LaPalme, 2018). This may help to explain why marketization is a tool that not only disciplines front-line workers but also incentivises and/or disciplines some tiers of decision-making. Finally, this book inspires a way forward for successful resistance which involves finding and targeting the specific weaknesses of marketization initiatives and making ‘quiet’ politics ‘noisy’; this is crucial advice which should be taken up by anyone who cares about voice and democracy.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"747 - 749"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42013810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Care theft: Family impacts of employer control in Australia's retail industry","authors":"N. Cortis, M. Blaxland, S. Charlesworth","doi":"10.1177/02610183231185766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231185766","url":null,"abstract":"Paid work promises pathways to financial security and wellbeing for families, yet variable scheduling and low pay can interfere with the routines and rhythms of family life, and contribute to caregiving challenges and stress. Using qualitative data from a survey of retail workers, this article shows how Australian employment policies have enabled flexibility practices to be strongly oriented around the needs of employers, reducing employees’ resources for care. We develop the concept of ‘care theft’ from employees’ accounts of the ways flexible scheduling and low pay converge to transform and deplete their temporal, financial and ethical resources for care. As an extension of ‘time theft’ and alternative to individualised notions of ‘work-family balance’, care theft helps make visible the ways employment practices strip resources for care from working people, and shift risk to low-income families and communities.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65003337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Racism and the Tory Party: From Disraeli to Johnson by Mike Cole","authors":"S. Papadakis","doi":"10.1177/02610183231190814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231190814","url":null,"abstract":"and obtaining a measure of justice for past wrongs. The collection is an important showcase for Irish historical criminology, in its own right. More than that, it sketches possible approaches to histories designated as peripheral because they do not meet the standards or fit the concepts that dominate Anglophone criminology. For feminists, the collection reminds us that it is not only possible to find places for women within penal history, but to challenge the broader terms on which that history is constructed.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"743 - 745"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45557606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical Social PolicyPub Date : 2023-08-01Epub Date: 2023-05-22DOI: 10.1177/02610183231174846
Lee F Monaghan, Aoife Begley
{"title":"COVID-19 vaccination requirements for Ireland's healthcare students.","authors":"Lee F Monaghan, Aoife Begley","doi":"10.1177/02610183231174846","DOIUrl":"10.1177/02610183231174846","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>International debate on COVID-19 policy issues, notably negative social consequences, is vital when grappling with the pandemic legacy. Drawing from the second author's experiences in the Irish healthcare and higher education sectors, this commentary scrutinises measures that discriminated against students who declined novel COVID-19 pharmaceuticals. In so doing, it serves as a point of contrast to fear-based interventions. Connections are made with relevant literature when urging those in authority to ensure that policies intended to maximise vaccine coverage are seen to be fair and convincing. The commentary concludes with some reflections that could underpin more defensible policymaking and inform future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"557-569"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10203851/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42060272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nathaniel Scherer, Phillippa Wiseman, Nicholas Watson, Richard Brunner, Jane Cullingworth, Shaffa Hameed, Charlotte Pearson, Tom Shakespeare
{"title":"'Do they ever think about people like us?': The experiences of people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Nathaniel Scherer, Phillippa Wiseman, Nicholas Watson, Richard Brunner, Jane Cullingworth, Shaffa Hameed, Charlotte Pearson, Tom Shakespeare","doi":"10.1177/02610183221109147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221109147","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People with learning disabilities in England and Scotland have experienced an increased risk of illness and death during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on data of a longitudinal qualitative study with 71 disabled people and 31 disability organisations, this article examines the experiences of 24 people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland during the pandemic, reflecting on what rendered them vulnerable and placed them at risk. Qualitative interviews were conducted with participants and key informants at two timepoints; June-August 2020 and February-April 2021. Findings emerged across four key themes: failure to plan for the needs of people with learning disabilities; the suspension and removal of social care; the impact of the pandemic on people's everyday routines; and lack of vaccine prioritisation. The inequalities experienced by people with learning disabilities in this study are not particular to the pandemic. We explore the findings in the context of theoretical frameworks of vulnerability, including Fineman's conceptualisation of a 'vulnerability paradigm'. We conclude that the structured marginalisation of people with disabilities, entrenched by government action and inaction, have created and exacerbated their vulnerability. Structures, policies and action must change.</p>","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 3","pages":"423-447"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9240722/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9886257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical Social PolicyPub Date : 2023-08-01Epub Date: 2022-09-27DOI: 10.1177/02610183221119955
Joana De Jesus Moura, Marta Pinto, Alexandra Oliveira, Maria Andrade, Sérgio Vitorino, Sandra Oliveira, Roberta Matos, Margarida Maria
{"title":"Sex workers' peer support during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned from a study of a Portuguese community-led response.","authors":"Joana De Jesus Moura, Marta Pinto, Alexandra Oliveira, Maria Andrade, Sérgio Vitorino, Sandra Oliveira, Roberta Matos, Margarida Maria","doi":"10.1177/02610183221119955","DOIUrl":"10.1177/02610183221119955","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To respond to the consequences felt by the COVID-19 pandemic, a community-led intervention was developed by the Portuguese national Movement of Sex Workers. With this exploratory study, we aimed to document their work and analyze their perceptions of this impact. To do so, we interviewed them individually, between May and August of 2020. Additionally, we analysed an Excel Sheet that contained the needs assessment and the support provided by the Movement. The content analysis of both suggests that the impact of the pandemic might have been exacerbated by the social inequalities caused by the prostitution stigma and characteristics such as gender, migration status, race, and socioeconomic status. This study calls for the inclusion of sex workers' voices in the design of policies and responses related to the commerce of sex. The consolidation of a Portuguese Movement of Sex Workers is also noted.</p>","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"492-513"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9515746/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43425788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weaponising time in the war on welfare: Slow violence and deaths of disabled people within the UK's social security system","authors":"C. Mills, J. Pring","doi":"10.1177/02610183231187588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231187588","url":null,"abstract":"In 2014, a long continuing battle began to find out more about Government record-keeping on the deaths of disabled people claiming benefits. Drawing on a timeline of evidence co-produced with disabled people, we analyse how deaths related to the benefits system are an outcome of slow violence, where both the delay between policies and their harmful effects, as well as the more active use of delay tactics, are central to how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) weaponise time as a strategy to avoid accountability and deny justice. DWP reviews into deaths are an under-researched yet significant focus because they are (supposedly) tools through which the DWP investigates the harms of its own policies, and yet, they are designed and carried out in a way that systemically invisibilise state accountability.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44347457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: It’s Not Where You Live, It's How You Live: Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate by John Bissett","authors":"Rosie R. Meade","doi":"10.1177/02610183231190801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231190801","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"739 - 741"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44094176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy by Ian Greer, Charles Umney","authors":"Genevieve Coderre-LaPalme","doi":"10.1177/02610183231190791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231190791","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"745 - 747"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46757115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Academic Women: Voicing Narratives of Gendered Experiences by Michelle Ronksley-Pavia, Michelle M. Neumann, Jane F. Manakil and Kelly Pickard-Smith (eds)","authors":"M. Hodgins","doi":"10.1177/02610183231190800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231190800","url":null,"abstract":"mants, in contrast to respondent JP staff. Adding weight to this, claimants participating in JP indicated considerable pressure to take any job, as quickly as possible, irrespective of their stated preferences. Given the recent contracting out of the LES along the lines of the JP programme we can surmise State Managers regard the effects of market managerialism (and by implication – workfare) a success in promoting labour discipline and commodification. Overall, this is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated account of welfare reform in Ireland that adds to our understanding of how and why market managerialist forms of welfare governance improve the state’s capacity to enact punitive activation of benefit claimants and work against claimant–SLB solidarity. Well-written and tightly structured this book warrants a place on the reading list of anyone interested active labour market policy and governance.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"749 - 751"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46921998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}