Pub Date : 2022-04-07DOI: 10.1177/02610183221087333
A. Broom, M. Peterie, Katherine Kenny, G. Ramia, Nadine Ehlers
Harm is a recurring theme in the social sciences. Scholars in a range of empirical areas have documented the deleterious outcomes that at times emerge from social structures, institutions and systems of governance. Yet these harms have often been presented under the rubric of ‘unintended consequences’. The outcomes of systems are designed to appear devoid of intentionality, in motion without any clear agency involved, and are thus particularly adept at evading accountability structures and forms of responsibility. Drawing insights from decades of social theory – as well as three illustrative examples from Australia's health, welfare and immigration systems – this article argues that many social structures are in fact intended to cause harm, but designed not to appear so. In presenting this argument, we offer a theoretical framework for conceptualising harm as actively administered. We also challenge scholars from across the social sciences to reconsider the partially depoliticising narrative of ‘unintended consequences’, and to be bolder in naming the intended harms that permeate social life, often serving powerful political and economic interests.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-07DOI: 10.1177/02610183221086515
J. Wiggan, C. Grover
The UK Government's introduction of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) in March 2020 was pitched as unprecedented. Yet, during the 1970s and 1980s, UK governments also operated wage subsidy job retention schemes. Indeed, despite their professed liberal market orientation, Thatcher's radical right Conservative governments presided over the expansive Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme (TSTWCS) between 1979 and 1984. Drawing upon the work of Gallas (2016), we contend this embrace of wage subsidy schemes by Conservative governments almost 40 years apart emanate from a class politics focused on securing the subordination of labour. In our analysis, the TSTWCS is understood as a mechanism to dampen disquiet with the early Thatcher Government's project to restore employer dominance. And the CJRS is a mechanism to preserve the labour market relations of domination and exploitation successfully embedded by the Conservatives in the 1980s.
{"title":"The politics of job retention schemes in Britain: The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme","authors":"J. Wiggan, C. Grover","doi":"10.1177/02610183221086515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221086515","url":null,"abstract":"The UK Government's introduction of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) in March 2020 was pitched as unprecedented. Yet, during the 1970s and 1980s, UK governments also operated wage subsidy job retention schemes. Indeed, despite their professed liberal market orientation, Thatcher's radical right Conservative governments presided over the expansive Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme (TSTWCS) between 1979 and 1984. Drawing upon the work of Gallas (2016), we contend this embrace of wage subsidy schemes by Conservative governments almost 40 years apart emanate from a class politics focused on securing the subordination of labour. In our analysis, the TSTWCS is understood as a mechanism to dampen disquiet with the early Thatcher Government's project to restore employer dominance. And the CJRS is a mechanism to preserve the labour market relations of domination and exploitation successfully embedded by the Conservatives in the 1980s.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"716 - 739"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43399121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.1177/02610183221089010
Joana Díaz-Pont
The paper aims to identify whether the interdependencies between climate action and social policies in the urban context are visible and, if so, in what areas and through what framings. Using a content analysis approach, it compares framings of the news on social policies in Barcelona over the course of a year. The results show that climate action is constructed discursively as an isolated issue, with its own logics and complexities, and with few references to other social policy areas. It also reveals that references to climate change in other social policy areas do not operate as framings. The paper claims that discursive strategies that separate climate change policy from other social policy areas can invisibilise the connections that operate between these policies, links that are key for pursuing the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, especially in the urban context.
{"title":"Visibilising the climate in social policies in Barcelona: Connections in the urban context","authors":"Joana Díaz-Pont","doi":"10.1177/02610183221089010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221089010","url":null,"abstract":"The paper aims to identify whether the interdependencies between climate action and social policies in the urban context are visible and, if so, in what areas and through what framings. Using a content analysis approach, it compares framings of the news on social policies in Barcelona over the course of a year. The results show that climate action is constructed discursively as an isolated issue, with its own logics and complexities, and with few references to other social policy areas. It also reveals that references to climate change in other social policy areas do not operate as framings. The paper claims that discursive strategies that separate climate change policy from other social policy areas can invisibilise the connections that operate between these policies, links that are key for pursuing the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, especially in the urban context.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"119 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41828356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-18DOI: 10.1177/02610183221084082
Hadrien Clouet, C. Freier, M. Senghaas
Based on participant observations in the French and German public employment services (PES), this article proposes a new way of analysing bureaucratic encounters following Bourdieu’s capital theory. We show that caseworkers who are supposed to support jobseekers into employment, force the allegedly needy jobseekers to accumulate capital, but only in its cultural or social form, and never both at the same time. While there are national differences in the accumulation process, the findings highlight the coexistence of two different strategies: accumulation of cultural capital for a long-term and stable return to employment or accumulation of social capital for a short-term and temporary access to employment. Caseworkers attribute different importance to each type of capital, which results in an uneven distribution that reproduces inequalities through social policy services.
{"title":"Which capital do you mobilise? How bureaucratic encounters shape jobseekers’ social and cultural capital in France and Germany","authors":"Hadrien Clouet, C. Freier, M. Senghaas","doi":"10.1177/02610183221084082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221084082","url":null,"abstract":"Based on participant observations in the French and German public employment services (PES), this article proposes a new way of analysing bureaucratic encounters following Bourdieu’s capital theory. We show that caseworkers who are supposed to support jobseekers into employment, force the allegedly needy jobseekers to accumulate capital, but only in its cultural or social form, and never both at the same time. While there are national differences in the accumulation process, the findings highlight the coexistence of two different strategies: accumulation of cultural capital for a long-term and stable return to employment or accumulation of social capital for a short-term and temporary access to employment. Caseworkers attribute different importance to each type of capital, which results in an uneven distribution that reproduces inequalities through social policy services.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"695 - 715"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49096823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-21DOI: 10.1177/02610183221078282a
M. Reisch
how well content hangs together. My view is pretty well here. One of the reasons for that is that Australia is the focus within all of the chapters, other than Wang and Tsai’s. For some this may jar a little with the book’s focus on difference, but the lessons of the book should travel well both because of the transferability of its core concepts and arguments and also, for Anglophone readers, because many of the issues discussed can trace their roots back to colonialism. The linkage between current societal injustices and the history of the British Empire is inadequately discussed, addressed or reckoned with in the UK, and beyond (Akala, 2018). Bringing the lessons of colonialism into the contemporary social work classroom is an important challenge for educators to meet. This book will support educators and students to do so, and to do so in a way that approaches the recognition of difference as a first step to overcoming divisions that obscure paths to achieving socially just solutions for all.
{"title":"Book Review: Hard White: The Mainstreaming of Racism in American Politics by Richard C. Fording and Sanford F. Schram","authors":"M. Reisch","doi":"10.1177/02610183221078282a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221078282a","url":null,"abstract":"how well content hangs together. My view is pretty well here. One of the reasons for that is that Australia is the focus within all of the chapters, other than Wang and Tsai’s. For some this may jar a little with the book’s focus on difference, but the lessons of the book should travel well both because of the transferability of its core concepts and arguments and also, for Anglophone readers, because many of the issues discussed can trace their roots back to colonialism. The linkage between current societal injustices and the history of the British Empire is inadequately discussed, addressed or reckoned with in the UK, and beyond (Akala, 2018). Bringing the lessons of colonialism into the contemporary social work classroom is an important challenge for educators to meet. This book will support educators and students to do so, and to do so in a way that approaches the recognition of difference as a first step to overcoming divisions that obscure paths to achieving socially just solutions for all.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"352 - 354"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46402025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-21DOI: 10.1177/02610183221078282e
S. Hunter
{"title":"Book Review: Social Policy: A Critical and Intersectional Analysis by Fiona Williams","authors":"S. Hunter","doi":"10.1177/02610183221078282e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221078282e","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"360 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48951947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-21DOI: 10.1177/02610183221078282b
L. Grimes
mobilizing the racist right through the formation of a multiracial coalition of racial liberals and moderates. Election results in 2020 and 2021 demonstrated both the strengths and limitations of this approach. The book’s major contributions are its placement of the Trump phenomenon in the broader canvas of American political and social history and its effective use of empirical data to validate or disprove a number of core assumptions about Trump’s rise and the sources of his support. The book’s limitations are partly the results of the timing of its publication. Not only have others already written much of what the authors assert, subsequent events – particularly the 6 January 2021 insurrection and the spread of disinformation by Republicans about election fraud and Covid vaccine mandates – have intensified the threat they describe and called into question their cautious optimism about the future.
{"title":"Book Review: Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice by Claire McGettrick, Katherine O’Donnell, Maeve O’Rourke, James M. Smith and Mari Steed","authors":"L. Grimes","doi":"10.1177/02610183221078282b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221078282b","url":null,"abstract":"mobilizing the racist right through the formation of a multiracial coalition of racial liberals and moderates. Election results in 2020 and 2021 demonstrated both the strengths and limitations of this approach. The book’s major contributions are its placement of the Trump phenomenon in the broader canvas of American political and social history and its effective use of empirical data to validate or disprove a number of core assumptions about Trump’s rise and the sources of his support. The book’s limitations are partly the results of the timing of its publication. Not only have others already written much of what the authors assert, subsequent events – particularly the 6 January 2021 insurrection and the spread of disinformation by Republicans about election fraud and Covid vaccine mandates – have intensified the threat they describe and called into question their cautious optimism about the future.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"354 - 356"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44845365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-21DOI: 10.1177/02610183221078282c
L. Briskman
extensively elsewhere on the quasi-incarceration of so-called ‘unmarried mothers’ and I am sure that they will go on to produce a detailed critiqued of the 2021 Report (see also O’Rourke et al., 2018; Smith, 2020). Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice is rightly, lucidly and incisively critical of governmental investigations that have been inefficient and unethical. In short, this book is vital for anyhow interested in the historical arc of social policy in relation to pariah groups. It also highlights the enormous efforts of the JFMR and their continued struggle for justice.
{"title":"Book Review: Engaging with Social Work: A Critical Introduction by Christine Morley, Phillip Ablett and Selma Macfarlane","authors":"L. Briskman","doi":"10.1177/02610183221078282c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221078282c","url":null,"abstract":"extensively elsewhere on the quasi-incarceration of so-called ‘unmarried mothers’ and I am sure that they will go on to produce a detailed critiqued of the 2021 Report (see also O’Rourke et al., 2018; Smith, 2020). Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice is rightly, lucidly and incisively critical of governmental investigations that have been inefficient and unethical. In short, this book is vital for anyhow interested in the historical arc of social policy in relation to pariah groups. It also highlights the enormous efforts of the JFMR and their continued struggle for justice.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"356 - 358"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43524800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-21DOI: 10.1177/02610183221078282d
Washington Marovatsanga
{"title":"Book Review: Africentric Social Work by Delores V. Mullings, Jennifer Clarke, Wanda Thomas Bernard, David Este and Sulaimon Giwa","authors":"Washington Marovatsanga","doi":"10.1177/02610183221078282d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221078282d","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"358 - 360"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41507653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-09DOI: 10.1177/02610183221078282
R. Sen
{"title":"Book Review: Working Across Difference: Social Work, Social Policy and Social Justice by Donna Baines, Bindi Bennett, Susan Goodwin and Margot Rawsthorne","authors":"R. Sen","doi":"10.1177/02610183221078282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221078282","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"350 - 352"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47559563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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