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Housing and social policy: contemporary themes and critical perspectives
- Authors:
- SOMERVILLE Peter, SPRINGINGS Nigel, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 264p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book looks at the changing nature of housing policy in the UK and how it relates to the economy and society generally. Contributors to the book consider the effects of market forces and state action on low-income households, different social classes, women, minority ethnic groups, and disabled people. It is argued that housing is a key focus for economic development, for social justice, for everyday lived experience, for class struggle, for gender and racial divisions, for organising the life course, and for physical and social regeneration.
Elder abuse and neglect-: a pilot incidence study in Israel
- Authors:
- IECOVICH Esther, LANKRI Michal, DRORI Daniela
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 16(3), 2005, pp.45-63.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The purposes of this study were: (1) to report on the incidence of elder abuse and neglect by forms of abuse among elderly persons in a metropolitan city in Israel; (2) to characterize the victims and their perpetrators; and (3) to report on the major pathologic family problems diagnosed in the victims' families and the professionals that were involved in intervention after an abused person had been identified. Data collection was conducted over a one-year period, during which 120 new cases of abuse and neglect were identified, an incidence rate of approximately 0.5% (elderly population include 24,800 inhabitants). Unmarried women, who were frail and disabled, and lived with others were at the greatest risk of abuse and neglect of all kinds. Differences were found with respect to age and ethnic origin. Mental abuse was the most prevalent form and in most cases abuse included a combination of various forms of abuse and neglect. Conflictual family relationships were found to be the most prevalent cause of any of the abusive behaviors and the least cause of abuse was caregiving to a dependent family member.
'Because they have all the power and I have none': state restructuring of income and employment supports and disabled women's lives in Ontario, Canada
- Authors:
- CHOUINARD Vera, CROOKS Valorie
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 20(1), January 2005, pp.19-32.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The authors examine the connections between neo-liberal forms of state restructuring and intervention in disabled people's lives, looking in particular at how these have affected disabled women's experiences of an income support programme, the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), in Ontario, Canada. We first outline why and how state programmes have been re-designed and implemented in increasingly harsh ways as a result of such neo-liberal forms of state restructuring. Even groups formerly considered among the 'deserving poor' have found their access to social assistance diminished. We then argue that this is an outcome of state programmes, policies and practices which are re-asserting and more deeply entrenching 'ableness' as a necessary condition of citizenship, inclusion and access to justice. Finally, the authors illustrate how disabled women's lives and well-being have been altered as a result of changes in the provision of these forms of state assistance using in-depth semi-structured interviews conducted with 10 women in Ontario.
Jobless or working poor in the Kyrgyz labour market: what role for social policies?
- Authors:
- BERNABE Sabine, KOLEV Alexandre
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 39(4), August 2005, pp.409-430.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper attempts to identify the multiple aspects of vulnerability in the Kyrgyz labour market. Particular attention is devoted to the working poor and precarious workers. This analysis is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty Monitoring Survey, which is the only survey to date that allows a comprehensive analysis of poverty and labour market outcomes in the Kyrgyz Republic. The period under investigation covers the years 1997 to 1998, for which data are available. The results point to the extreme vulnerability of individuals with less education and women, who cumulated a high risk of being unemployed, of remaining longer in unemployment, of being discouraged unemployed and, if employed, of being low-paid or working in precarious jobs. Other groups facing a high risk of exclusion, both from and within employment, were people with disabilities, individuals living in rural or depressed areas, young people and internal migrants. The multiple aspects of vulnerability in the Kyrgyz labour market, in particular the large overlap between work and poverty, have important implications for the design of effective social policies.