Hidden Voices: Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space

Front Cover\nHalf Title\nSeries\nHidden Voices: Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space\nCopyright information\nDedication\nTable of contents\nList of tables\nGlossary\nAbout the author\nAcknowledgments\nForeword\nPreface\nIntroduction\n	About this book\n	A note on the research\n	Inclusion criteria\n	A note on interviewing\n	A note on analysis\n	Lived experience as a form of knowledge\n	‘Shared typical’ forms of knowledge\n	Temporality in research: the value of a snapshot\n1 Setting the stage: the development of the Irish welfare state and its place in the world of welfare\n	Early developments\n	A welfare commons?\n	A department of social welfare\n	Progress and on\n	Where recessions go, austerity follows\n	Putting our house in order\n	Rolling back the state: welfare cuts during the economic crisis\n	The punitive turn: the end of ideas in the Irish welfare space?\n	Pathways to Work\n	So where does Ireland fit?\n2 Welfare, marginality and social liminality: life in the welfare ‘space’\n	Articulating a marginal and socially liminal existence: what does it mean to exist in this ‘space’?\n		Poverty, material disadvantage and instability\n		A loss of autonomy and control\n		The inability to take part in society\n		Experiencing social demotion\n		More on marginality and social liminality\n3 The effect of the work ethic\n	Where does the work ethic come from? Formative experiences in familial settings\n	Broader social discourses\n	Types of work\n	The enforcement of the work ethic by the welfare system\n4 Welfare conditionality\n	Experiences across payment types: submitting for judgement\n	What happens now? Where you must go and what you must do\n	Wait just a minute, Mr Postman\n	The public face of welfare recipiency under ‘expected’ conditions\n5 Maintaining compliance and engaging in impression management\n	Managing impressions in day-to-day life: complying with notions of ‘goodness’\n	Open versus closed strategies\n	The effect of impression management: withdrawing from the social\n	Welfare recipiency: a general trend towards keeping it hidden, and the importance of context\n	Impression management and maintaining compliance when engaging with welfare administrators\n	Fostering the image of the ‘good’ welfare recipient\n	Managing impressions due to a fear of the consequences\n6 Deservingness: othering, self-justification and the norm of reciprocity\n	A consciousness of the question of deservedness\n	Questioning deservedness through the practice of othering and self-justification\n		Overt othering and self-justification: a focus on particular groups\n		Overt othering and self-justification with less specific focus\n		Subtle othering and self-justification based on ‘common sense’\n	Social reciprocity and questions of deservedness\n	My taxes are paying your welfare: the darker side of social reciprocity\n	Hurtful stereotypes or harmless fun?\n7 Welfare is ‘bad’: bringing it all together\n	Welfare is just ‘bad’\n	There is nothing but echoes in this echo chamber: the continual reinforcement of welfare as ‘bad’ in the online space\n	Resisting the negative\n8 COVID-19: policy responses and lived experiences\n	Lived experiences in the context of COVID-19.\n		A note on this research\n		Living through history: initial and longer-term experiences of work disruption during the pandemic\n		Receiving support through PUP\n		A ‘two-tier’ welfare system?\n		The value of a safety net\nConclusion\n	The stigma of public burden\n		Citizenship and inclusivity\n		‘Doing’ welfare differently: spaces and places\n		Framing welfare differently\n		Crises to come? Why we need welfare: a note to finish on\nNotes\nReferences\nIndex\nBack Cover