Murphy, Mary P.
(2014)
Ireland’s lone parents, social welfare and recession.
Irish Community Development Law Journal, 3 (2).
pp. 6-21.
Abstract
This paper analyses recent changes to the structure of Ireland’s One-parent Family Payment (OFP) as
an example of how austerity has not only impacted on Irelands most vulnerable but also structurally
changed Ireland’s social welfare system. We use various analytical tools including gender typologies,
feminist principles and economic and social human rights frameworks to make sense of recent policy
developments for Irish lone parents and key social security features of austerity budgets and to examine
the recent trajectory of welfare changes for Irish lone parents and how it is transitioning to a more
conditional employment focused regime for lone parents. We conclude that, given Ireland has been
relatively slow to embrace this type of regime; it is not too late to learn from lessons elsewhere which
show that forced labour market participation of lone parents does not alleviate child or adult poverty.
Item Type: |
Article
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Keywords: |
Lone parents; social security; austerity; adult worker; feminist; employment; |
Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
Item ID: |
9058 |
Depositing User: |
Dr. Mary Murphy
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Date Deposited: |
05 Dec 2017 16:35 |
Journal or Publication Title: |
Irish Community Development Law Journal |
Publisher: |
Community Law & Mediation |
Refereed: |
Yes |
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