Do the Poor Pay More for Food? Evidence from the United Kingdom

In a contemporary evolution of the tutelary state, welfare reform in the United Kingdom has been characterised by moves towards greater conditionality and sanctioning. This is influenced by the attributing responsibility for poverty and unemployment to the behaviour of marginalised individuals. Mead (1992) has argued that the poor are dependants who ought to receive support on condition of certain restrictions imposed by a protective state that will incentivise engagement with support mechanisms. This article examines how the contemporary tutelary and therapeutic state has responded to new forms of social marginality. Drawing on a series of in-depth interviews conducted with welfare claimants with an offending background in England and Scotland, the article examines their encounters with the welfare system and argues that alienation, rather than engagement with support, increasingly characterises their experiences.

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Care-leaving in South Africa: an international and social justice perspective

Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy ◽

10.1080/21699763.2017.1413994 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 76-90 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Sue Bond

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

South Africa ◽

Social Justice ◽

United Kingdom ◽

United States Of America ◽

Support Services ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Poor ◽

Care Leavers ◽

Poor Outcomes

AbstractInternationally, the care-leaving debate began in the 1970s. The poor outcomes associated with care-leaving in the United Kingdom, United States of America and Australia prompted attention resulting in policy change in recent years, which continues to develop. The experience and outcomes for care leavers in South Africa reflects that of their contemporaries in other countries, however, contextual factors compound the problems that they face and there is little support available to them. This paper discusses some of the challenges facing care leavers and the development of the care-leaving debate, legislation and policy in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia. A comparison of the care-leaving arena in South Africa and the support services available to care leavers in the different countries will be presented. The paper concludes by arguing that the absence of services for care leavers is a neglect of the state's responsibility as corporate parent, and represents an issue of social justice.

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The United Kingdom

The Oxford Handbook of Christmas ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198831464.013.38 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 474-488

Author(s):

Martin Johnes

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

United Kingdom ◽

Mass Media ◽

Way Of Life ◽

Public Spheres ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Poor ◽

Modern Britain ◽

Private And Public

The United Kingdom played a key role in the development of many of the ideas central to the modern Christmas. However, British festive practices always varied by class, gender, region, and the four nations of the United Kingdom. Some of these variations lessened in the second half of the twentieth century due to the rise of affluence and the growth of a mass media. Indeed, Christmas in modern Britain came to be an integrative experience. It brought people closer to their family, friends, neighbours, community, compatriots and, occasionally, the poor and suffering. It crossed any notional boundaries between the private and public spheres and helped maintain a common way of life in a society divided by class, ethnicity, and taste. Christmas thus came to be viewed as part of a British way of life, even if variations remained in the precise ways people celebrated.

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Effect of timing of intrauterine insemination with frozen-thawed semen on conception rates in ewes

Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) ◽

10.1017/s0308229600034681 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 1987 ◽

pp. 27-27 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

R.C.F. Findlater ◽

W. Haresign ◽

R.M. Curnock

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Artificial Insemination ◽

Intrauterine Insemination ◽

Sufficient Data ◽

Optimum Time ◽

Sheep Industry ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Poor ◽

Conception Rates ◽

The Moment

The widespread use of artificial insemination (AI) in the United Kingdom sheep industry has been limited by the poor conception rates obtained after cervical insemination of frozen-thawed semen. The major problem in this respect is the impairment of sperm transport through the cervix, particularly when AI is used in conjunction with oestrus synchronisation.Previous studies (Killeen and Caffery, 1982; Maxwell, 1984) have indicated that a laparo-scopic technique for intrauterine insemination in ewes may overcome such limitations. At the moment, however, sufficient data on the optimum time of insemination and sperm doses required to maximise fertility in British breeds are not available. The present study was conducted to establish the optimum time of intrauterine insemination using frozen-thawed semen.

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THE BRUTAL TREATMENT OF YOUNG CHILDREN EMPLOYED IN THE MINES AND COLLIERIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM A LITTLE MORE THAN A CENTURY AGO

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.41.4.749 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 41 (4) ◽

pp. 749-749

Author(s):

T. E. C.

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

United Kingdom ◽

Social Class ◽

Young Children ◽

House Of Commons ◽

Industrial Community ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Poor

If an age is judged by its treatment of the weak and helpless, the nineteenth century deserves condemnation. The callous indifference in that century toward the employment of young children in the mines and collieries of the United Kingdom was never more vividly described than by Anthony Ashley Cooper, Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885) in his speech to the House of Commons in 1842. By his persistent agitation in Parliament, covering several decades, Shaftesbury eventually forced society's recognition that all children, regardless of social class, deserve the same humane treatment. Some of the cruelties inflicted by the early industrial community on these filthy and ignorant children of the poor are described by the Earl of Shaftesbury in these passages from his speech: With respect to the age at which children are worked in mines and collieries in South Staffordshire, it is common to begin at 7 years old; in Shropshire some begin as early as 6 years of age; in Warwickshire the same... In Derbyshire many begin at 5... Near Oldham children are worked as low as 4 years old, and in the small collieries towards the hills some are so young that they are brought to work in their bedgowns.... It must be borne in mind that the regular hours of a full day's labour are 14, and occasionally 16; and the children have to walk a mile or two at night without changing their clothes... In Oldham the mountain seams are wrought in a very rude manner. There is very insufficient drainage.

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