Lecturer in Sociology, Criminology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool
Rethinking debt and how it is ‘cared for’ reveals its gendered, classed and racialised nature
‘Good parenting’ is grounded in a white middle-class ideal of what the family is and thus shifts responsibility for nurturing from society to individuals, mostly women
This is the first in a series of ten SPERI Comments on the theme of rethinking recovery. In this introductory post the authors warn that measurements of, and debates about, economic recovery in the UK have tended to overlook deepening inequality along the lines of class, gender, race, ability, age and sexuality.
Forthcoming seminars at SPERI will endeavour to rethink recovery in a radical way, taking gender and social reproduction fully into account
There is no end to welfare in sight; yet welfare is no longer for the poor
British society is broken, but it is an indifferent and disconnected elite that is really to blame