Lone Mothers, Paid Work and Gendered Moral Rationalitie
S Duncan author R Edwards author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Published:17th Aug '99
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Simon Duncan's other publications include "Housing, States and Localities", "The Local State and Uneven Development" and "Success and Failure in Housing Provision: European Systems Compared".
Why are most British lone mothers unemployed? Criticising conventional economic theories of decision-making, it posits an alternative concept of 'gendered moral rationality', and sets up new frameworks for understanding national policy differences and discourses about lone motherhood.Why are most British lone mothers unemployed? And is 'welfare to work' the right sort of policy response? This book provides an in-depth analysis of how lone mothers negotiate the relationship between motherhood and paid work. Combining qualitative and quantitative data, it focuses on social capital in different neighbourhoods, local labour markets and welfare states. Criticising conventional economic theories of decision-making, it posits an alternative concept of 'gendered moral rationality', and sets up new frameworks for understanding national policy differences and discourses about lone motherhood.
ISBN: 9780333644539
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333 pages