1st Edition
Lone Mothers, Social Security and the Family in Hong Kong
By Lai Ching Leung
Copyright 1998
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is the first study with feminist analysis on lone mothers’ economic dependency in Hong Kong. The implications of this study are considerable; it challenges both conventional thinking about families and the political and academic debates about social policy. This book sets out to examine the relationship between social security benefits and lone mothers’ labour supply in Hong Kong. Two... Read more
Contents: Social security and work incentives; Women’s economic dependency and the labour market; Women and family change; Lone mothers in Hong Kong; Research methodology; Claiming experiences of lone mothers; Lone mothers and employment; The views of the officials; Conclusions.
Biography
Lai Ching Leung
’Students of social policy, sociology, social work and feminism will find Dr. Leung’s book extremely stimulating...an excellent account of the position of lone mothers in the segmented labour market and the means-tested social security system in Hong Kong. This is an excellent book that deserves to be read widely.’ Vic George, Department of Social and Public Policy and Social Work, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
