Families and poverty : Everyday Life on a Low Income / [electronic resource]
Daly, Mary,author.
Kelly, Grace,author.
The central interest of this innovative book is the role and significance of family in a context of poverty and low-income. Based on a micro-level study carried out in 2011 and 2012, with 51 families in Northern Ireland, it offers new empirical evidence and a theorisation of the relationship between family life and poverty.
FAMILIES AND POVERTY; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Aims and objectives; Theoretical background ; Definitions and theoretical framework; Methodology; The interviews; Analysis; Limitations of the study; Structure of the book; 1. Introducing the respondents; Personal and family characteristics; Economic status; Household income; Housing tenure; Health; How did people get into their current situation?; Overview; 2. Family life through an economic lens; Money and need ; Money and the rhythms and moods of family life ; Family expenditure and consumption patterns
The rational economy versus the moral economy Money management ; Overview; 3. The construction, possibilities and limits of family in conditions of poverty and low income ; Views and understandings of family ; Constructing family life; Dispositions, resources and capabilities; Relative (dis)empowerment; Overview ; 4. Parents and their children; The significance of children ; Parenting in conditions of low income; The impacts of parenting in low-income situations; Being a child in a low-income family; Overview; 5. Wider family relationships and support; Degree of support from family
Types of support receivedAmbivalence surrounding family support; Giving (back) to family ; Overview; 6. Social networks and local engagement; The locality and family life; Friendship networks; Contact with, and support from, neighbours; Local services; Comparisons with others ; Overview; 7. Representing self and family; Embarrassment ; Shame; Othering; Overview; 8. The policy context and the implications of the findings; Welfare and family policy reform ; Likely impact of welfare reform; Illness and disability ; Childcare provision; Income (in)adequacy and employment; Fuel poverty
Place, locality and an integrated set of services9. Conclusion; Facing the future ; Overview of results in the light of theoretical framework ; A final word; References; Interview schedule; Family life in Northern Ireland in 2012; Details of response rate and equivalisation of income; Equivalisation of income; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2022).
The central interest of this innovative book is the role and significance of family in a context of poverty and low-income. Based on a micro-level study carried out in 2011 and 2012, with 51 families in Northern Ireland, it offers new empirical evidence and a theorisation of the relationship between family life and poverty.
Poor families
Poor families
Poor families
Cost and standard of living