Description
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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Contested territory; Chapter 3 The study, the people and the methods; Chapter 4 The ‘breadwinners’; Chapter 5 ‘Fitting it all in’; Chapter 6 Joint decision-making?; Chapter 7 Community, kinship and housing; Chapter 8 Lone-parent households; Chapter 9 Conclusions: trapped in poverty?;
