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Lone Mothers (lone + mother)

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Lone mothers, workfare and precarious employment: Time for a Canadian Basic Income?

INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY REVIEW, Issue 1 2009
Patricia M. Evans
Abstract The growth of precarious employment poses significant challenges to current social assistance income support policies yet it remains largely neglected in policy-making arenas. Drawing upon qualitative data from a study in Ontario, Canada, this paper examines the particular implications of these challenges for lone mothers, who figure prominently both in non-standard employment and as targets for workfare policies. In the context of changing labour markets, the article considers the potential strengths and limitations of Basic Income approaches to achieving economic security for lone mothers. [source]

,Unfortunate objects': lone mothers in eighteenth-century London , Tanya Evans

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 4 2006
Leonard Schwarz
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Lone mothers, workfare and precarious employment: Time for a Canadian Basic Income?

INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY REVIEW, Issue 1 2009
Patricia M. Evans
Abstract The growth of precarious employment poses significant challenges to current social assistance income support policies yet it remains largely neglected in policy-making arenas. Drawing upon qualitative data from a study in Ontario, Canada, this paper examines the particular implications of these challenges for lone mothers, who figure prominently both in non-standard employment and as targets for workfare policies. In the context of changing labour markets, the article considers the potential strengths and limitations of Basic Income approaches to achieving economic security for lone mothers. [source]

Making work pay, making tax credits work: An assessment with specific reference to lone-parent employment

INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY REVIEW, Issue 2 2008
Jane Millar
Abstract This article examines the origins, aims, and design of tax credits in the United Kingdom, and discusses the extent to which tax credits represent a new approach in social security policy. It then focuses on the role that these transfers play in supporting lone mothers in employment, drawing on the experiences of lone-parent families to explore how tax credits worked for them. The discussion highlights the tensions between family and employment change and tax credits rules about reporting changes in circumstances and income. [source]

A new deal for lone parents?

AREA, Issue 2 2008
Training lone parents for work in West London
In this paper we explore the impacts of the training programmes offered to lone mothers with young children on the Government's ,New Deal for Lone Parents' in one local labour market: West London. Our research suggests that regulatory workfare policies are (re)producing and reinforcing gendered inequalities in the labour market by encouraging lone mothers to undertake training in feminised occupational areas such as childcare. We will argue that in a local economy such as West London where more childcare workers are desperately needed to enable other more highly skilled workers to take up employment opportunities, such training programmes may be doing little more than exacerbating the already gendered and class-based polarisation of the labour market , embedding low-skilled, poorly qualified lone mothers into low-paid jobs. [source]