Who Cares?

SKU: 9780522878950
Who Cares? - 9780522878950 - Eve Vincent - MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUB - The Little Lost Bookshop

Who Cares?

SKU: 9780522878950
Author: Eve Vincent | Publisher: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUB

The welfare state meets the 2020s in Australia

The twentieth-century Australian welfare state made the bold promise to care for its citizens. But since the 1990s, social security has become increasingly conditional and punitive in its provision of this so-called care. Who Cares? outlines the perspectives of people affected by two recent welfare measures, offering an urgent account of the implications of these reforms.

Eve Vincent has interviewed people who have been affected by the controversial cashless debit card, which limits discretionary spending, as well as those looking after small children who are compulsory participants in the program ParentsNext.

Vincent challenges the very category of 'welfare recipient', which defines people exclusively by their relationship to paid work. And she asks who bears the burden of looking after vulnerable people once the welfare state's duty of care is displaced by surveillance and punishment? Who Cares? offers a new and deeply humane account of life on welfare today.

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