Title Lone mothers, paid workers, and gendered moral rationalities / Simon Duncan and Rosalind Edwards

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 333 pages) : illustrations Contents Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- How to Explain the 'Problem' of Lone Motherhood: An Introduction -- Understanding Lone Motherhood: Competing Discourses and Positions -- Lone Mothers in Neighbourhoods: Material Contexts and Social Capital -- Lone Mothers and Gendered Moral Rationalities: Orientations to Paid Work -- Lone Mothers and Paid Work: Human Capital or Gendered Moral Rationalities? -- Lone Mothers in Labour Markets: Employment Availability and Geography -- Lone Mothers and Genderfare: Positioning Lone Mothers in Welfare States -- Economic Decision-Making and Moral Rationalities -- From National 'Welfare to Work' to Local 'Welfare to Work' -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Why are British lone mothers less likely to be in paid work than in most other western countries? And is 'welfare to work' the right sort of policy response? This book sets out to answer questions like these through in-depth analysis of how lone mothers negotiate the relationship between motherhood and paid work. Combining qualitative and quantitative data, it focuses on social capital in different neighbourhoods, local labour markets and welfare states, and throughout makes particular comparisons with lone mothers in Germany, Sweden and the USA. In so doing, the book provides a critique of conventional economic accounts of decision-making, and posits an alternative concept of 'gendered moral rationality' which can better account for lone mothers' labour market behaviour. It also sets up a new framework for understanding political and policy discourses about lone motherhood, and develops a concept of 'genderfare' with which to understand national policy differences Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-317) and index Notes Print version record Subject Unmarried mothers -- Great Britain Single mothers -- Great Britain Unmarried mothers -- Employment -- Great Britain Single mothers -- Employment -- Great Britain Working mothers -- Great Britain Single mothers Single mothers -- Employment Unmarried mothers Unmarried mothers -- Employment Working mothers Alleenstaanden. Moeders. Werkende vrouwen. Great Britain Form Electronic book Author Edwards, Rosalind ISBN 9780230509689 0230509681

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