Trapped in Poverty? : Labour-Market Decisions in Low-Income Households

Name: Trapped in Poverty?:Labour-Market Decisions in Low-Income Households
ISBN: 9781315002989

doi:10.4324/9781315002989

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ABSTRACT

How do people on low incomes make decisions about employment and benefit claims? Interview material and economic analysis combine with new theories of the relationship between moral and economic reasoning.

Trapped in Poverty?

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

chapter |43 pages

Contested territory

chapter |32 pages

The study, the people and the methods

chapter |50 pages

The ‘breadwinners'

chapter |53 pages

‘Fitting it all in'

chapter |67 pages

Joint decision-making?

chapter |27 pages

Community, kinship and housing

chapter |19 pages

Lone-parent households

chapter |23 pages

Conclusions: trapped in poverty?