About the authors; Title Page; Contents; Untitled; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; List of tables and figures; 1 The receiving end of welfare; 2 Poverty, deprivation, resilience; 3 Housing; 4 Social connections; 5 Working lives; 6 Barriers to and support for working; 7 Welfare as work: Dealing with Centrelink; 8 Values and ethics about income support; Afterword: In the no-standing zone; Appendix 1: The research project; Appendix 2: The characteristics of our participants; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Explores behind the unemployment statistics to shed new light on what it is like to live on a low income and experience the brunt of welfare reform, exploding the persistent myth that welfare recipients don't contribute to society
