Trapped in poverty? : labour-market decision in low-income households

Author(s)

• Jordan, Bill

Bibliographic Information

Trapped in poverty? : labour-market decision in low-income households

Bill Jordan ... [et al.]

Routledge, 1992

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

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?

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Details

• NCID: BA13509219
• ISBN:
  • 0415068673
• LCCN: 91010046
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London [England] ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 350 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD5765.A6
  • DC20 : 306.3/6
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Poor -- Employment -- Great Britain -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Labor market -- Great Britain -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Work and family -- Great Britain -- Case studies