This is a reading list for those interested in welfare reform and austerity in the UK. If you would like to add something to the list, or want advice on how to access something, drop me a line (https://twitter.com/amygmurphy).
This reading list was last updated in 2017.
My PhD is part of the project Local Health Inequalities in an Age of Austerity: The Stockton-on-Tees study (https://www.dur.ac.uk/health.inequalities/).
Here is a list of publications from the study thus far:
- Schrecker, T. and Bambra, C. (2015) How politics makes us sick: Neoliberal epidemics, London Palgrave
- Baumberg, B., Warren, J., Garthwaite, K. and Bambra, C. (2015) A real world rethink of the WCA, London: Demos
- Garthwaite, K.A., Collins, P.J. and Bambra, C. (2015) Food for thought: exploring health in austerity through an ethnographic study of an English foodbank, Social Science and Medicine, doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.03.019
- Mattheys, K. (2015) The Coalition, austerity and mental health, Disability and Society, doi:10.1080/09687599.2014.1000513
- Bambra, C. (2013) All in it together’? Health Inequalities, Austerity and the ‘Great Recession, in C. Woods (ed). Health and Austerity, London: Demos
- Warren, J., Garthwaite, K. & Bambra, C. (2014) After Atos Healthcare: is the Employment and Support Allowance fit for purpose and does the Work Capability Assessment have a future?, Disability & Society, 29:8, 1319-1323, DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2014.948746
- Bambra, C. and Garthwaite, K. (2015) Austerity and the English Health Divide. Area. DOI: 10.1111/area.12191
- Garthwaite, K. and Bambra, C. (2015) Food poverty, welfare reform and health inequalities. In: Foster, L. Brunton, A. Deeming, C. and Haux, T. (eds) In Defence of Welfare II: Policy Press
Women and austerity/welfare reform:
From Women’s Budget Group (http://wbg.org.uk/):
- TUC Women and the Cuts Toolkit (https://www.tuc.org.uk/sites/default/files/tucfiles/womenandcutstoolkit.pdf)
- Prof. Prem Sikka, The Conversation, March 2015: This election, remember that cracking down on tax avoidance could end austerity
- Social Policy in a Cold Climate Research Programme, Jan 2015: The Coalition’s Social Policy Record: Policy, Spending and Outcomes, 2010-2015
- UNISON report, June 2014: Counting the Cost: How cuts are shirnking women’s lives
- TUC report, Feb 2014: Age Immaterial: Women Over 50 in the Workplace
- Gingerbread, Dec 2013: Paying the Price – single parents in the age of austerity
- The Money Advice Service, Nov 2013: Indebted lives: the complexities of life in debt
- Layers of Inequality: A Human Rights and Equality Impact Assessment of the Public Spending Cuts on Black Asian and Minority Ethnic Women in Coventry, by Kalwinder Sandhu, Mary-Ann Stephenson and James Harrison. (A joint report of Coventry Women’s Voices, Coventry Ethnic Minority Action Partnership, Foleshill Women’s Training and the Centre for Human Rights in Practice, School of Law, University of Warwick.) (2013)
- Estimating the costs of tax and benefit changes by gender, House of Commons Library Standard Note (19 November 2013)
- Findings and Recommendations from Interim Case Study: the impact of austerity measures upon women in the North East of England, by Sue Robson and June Robinson, (North East Women’s Network, Women’s Resource Centre) (October 2012)
From Scottish Women’s Budget Group:
Geographies of recession and austerity
- Alison Stenning at Newcastle University: https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/alisonstenning/tag/austerity/
Welfare sanctions and welfare conditionality
- Welfare Conditionality project: http://www.welfareconditionality.ac.uk/publication-category/initial-main-report/
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Welfare sanctions and conditionality: https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/welfare-sanctions-and-conditionality-uk
- Benefit Sanctions in the North East of England: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CESCR/Shared%20Documents/GBR/INT_CESCR_CSS_GBR_23660_E.pdf
Child poverty
- Resolution Foundation: A Poverty of Information (http://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/a-poverty-of-information-assessing-the-governments-new-child-poverty-focus-and-future-trends/)
- Child Poverty Action Group Factsheet: http://www.cpag.org.uk/sites/default/files/CPAG_factsheet_the%20cuts_May13.pdf
Lived experience of welfare reform
- The Dole Animators: https://doleanimators.wordpress.com/
- Ruth Patrick: Rhetoric and reality, exploring lived experiences of welfare reform under the Coalition: http://www.social-policy.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/06_patrick.pdf
Think North 