DOI: 10.7190/shu-thesis-00343
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From welfare to warfare: class struggle on the margins

Abstract: Since the mid-1980s, UK welfare reform has seen policymakers incrementally re-design the framing, structure and delivery of the UK’s social security system. Britain’s network of benefit administration and employment service offices have experienced a range of expenditure cuts and are increasingly governed by a new ‘workfarist’ mesh of behavioural conditionality and labour market activation policy. The overarching purpose of this, or at least according to a number of key politicians, has been to ensure labour m… Show more

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“…The Scylla State corrects this, illustrating that at the heart of the multi-dimensional traumas experienced by women is political and economic theory and practice that demands compliance and productivity of communities according to gender-specific normative expectations: these expectations centre around the demand for 'womanfare' in the face of ongoing retrenchment of resources and individualisation of social adversity, and operate not through the operation of two arms but the hydra heads of the Scylla. As opposed to the overt 'warfare' described by Redman (2020), we see a more complex array of strategies experienced by women who come to the attention of the state. The expectations that women are behove to are more concerned with moral and behavioural hygiene, the creation and sustenance of economically productive, socially compliant, and self-sufficient families.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…The Scylla State corrects this, illustrating that at the heart of the multi-dimensional traumas experienced by women is political and economic theory and practice that demands compliance and productivity of communities according to gender-specific normative expectations: these expectations centre around the demand for 'womanfare' in the face of ongoing retrenchment of resources and individualisation of social adversity, and operate not through the operation of two arms but the hydra heads of the Scylla. As opposed to the overt 'warfare' described by Redman (2020), we see a more complex array of strategies experienced by women who come to the attention of the state. The expectations that women are behove to are more concerned with moral and behavioural hygiene, the creation and sustenance of economically productive, socially compliant, and self-sufficient families.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 95%