Lecture Notes - Week 3; who are the poor?
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Summary
Disability - lower income due to educational achievement, alienation, discrimination, benefit cuts
Religion / Ethnic Minorities - discrimination, moral panics from media
Young People - reliant on loans, high rent
Females - inequality in the workplace
High-Risk Groups
- lone-parent families
- children
- unemployed
- low paid (0-hour contracts)
- elderly
- homeless (no benefits)
- disabled / sick
- ethnic minorities
Lone-Parent Families More likely to be working-class women. Have to combine employment, childcare and housework (triple-shift), more likely to be workless or part-time. Twice as likely to be on low income than as couples without children. 30% work part-time and 22% work full-time, 1 in 4 in poverty. Gingerbread (charity);
- 42% of SPF on council estates which may have deprived areas e.g failing schools, drugs
- dept problems
- Mack and Lansley - single mums often have no savings
- Spenser - material issues lead to others e.g health, achievement
Suffer from negative labelling by the media and politicians (New Right)
Theory of SPF
Marxist - SPF are easily exploited
Feminist - women are socialised to be housewives / mothers, have to fit work in around domestic role (career break)
Weberian - poor market situation, no power to 'negotiate' a good income, unlikely to be in a trade union for support
New Right - dependency culture, single mums 'married to the state'
The Low Paid
- 30% of poor are in low paid work
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