1st Edition
Half a Citizen Life on welfare in Australia
List of abbreviations
List of tables and figures
1. The receiving end of welfare
2. Poverty, deprivation, resilience
3. Housing
4. Social connections
5. Working lives
6. Barriers to and support for working
7. Welfare as work: Dealing with Centrelink
8. Values and ethics about income support
Afterword: In the no-standing zone
Appendix 1: The research project
Appendix 2: The characteristics of our participants
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
JOHN MURPHY is Associate Professor in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. His most recent book is A Decent Provision: Australian welfare policy, 1870 to 1949 (Ashgate, 2011). SUELLEN MURRAY is Associate Professor in the Centre for Applied Social Research at RMIT University. Her most recent book, with John Murphy and others, is After the Orphanage: Beyond the children's home (UNSW Press, 2009). JENNY CHALMERS is Senior Research Fellow at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales. SONIA MARTIN is is Lecturer in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning at RMIT University. GREG MARSTON is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and Human Services, The University of Queensland.
