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Rethinking Self-Sufficiency: Employment, Families and Welfare

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Full employment has re-emerged on the UK policy agenda and is now interpreted as a higher percentage of men and women employed than previously recorded. The changing interconnections between employment, family structures and welfare systems need to be taken into account if full employment is to become a meaningful policy tool and a realisable policy goal. Self-sufficiency is interpreted as the ability of individuals to sustain a customary minimum standard of living, through a combination of waged work, family care, welfare transfers and the public and private provision of goods and services, over the life course. A number of types of employment and family care pathways, currently in evidence, are identified and evaluated in terms of the opportunities they provide for individuals to achieve self-sufficiency, in the context of gender and class relations. Copyright 2000 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Gardiner, Jean, 2000. "Rethinking Self-Sufficiency: Employment, Families and Welfare," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 24(6), pages 671-689, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cambje:v:24:y:2000:i:6:p:671-89
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    1. Gráinne Collins, 2006. "Clean pure white and definitely upper class," The Institute for International Integration Studies Discussion Paper Series iiisdp151, IIIS.
    2. Jessica Zamberletti & Giulia Cavrini & Cecilia Tomassini, 2018. "Grandparents providing childcare in Italy," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 15(3), pages 265-275, September.
    3. Sang-Hoon Ahn & Young Choi & Young-Mi Kim, 2012. "Static Numbers to Dynamic Statistics: Designing a Policy-Friendly Social Policy Indicator Framework," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 108(3), pages 387-400, September.

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