‘It’s an ideological push,’ says Brooks—one that - TopicsExpress



          

‘It’s an ideological push,’ says Brooks—one that steamrolls any notion that an advanced industrial economy should provide a living income for all its citizens, not just those who can run the fastest through an economic steeplechase. For single mothers, an increasingly punitive conception of welfare as the last resort of the least deserving is combined with gender inequalities that are only increased, not lessened, by financial hardship. Seventy per cent of the world’s poor are women—and the question remains: how, as a society, should we recognise and compensate for the labour of child-rearing and domestic work, which has almost always gone unpaid? Is full-time wage labour the only means of measuring social contribution that we are prepared to endorse?
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:10:46 +0000

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