Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables -- Glossary -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Series editors' preface -- Introduction -- Setting the stage: the development of the Irish welfare state and its place in the world of welfare -- Welfare, marginality and social liminality: life in the welfare 'space' -- The effect of the work ethic -- Welfare conditionality -- Maintaining compliance and engaging in impression management -- Deservingness: othering, self-justification and the norm of reciprocity -- Welfare is 'bad': bringing it all together -- COVID-19: policy responses and lived experiences -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary
Welfare states are a major feature of many societies. This book draws on qualitative interviews with people receiving various working age welfare payments in Ireland to analyse welfare conditionality and explore stigma, social reciprocity and the notions of the deserving and undeserving poor
