The below list provides a very brief list of resources, key organisations and programmes that relate to the themes of austerity, welfare, and citizenship.
Key research and readings on citizenship, austerity and welfare reform
De Agostini, P., Hills, J. and Sutherland, H. (2015) ‘Were we really all in it together? The distributional effects of the 2010–2015 UK Coalition government's tax-benefit policy changes: an end-of-term update’, EUROMOD Working Paper Series 13/15, University of Essex, ISER, Colchester.
Dwyer, P. (1998) ‘Conditional citizens? Welfare rights and responsibilities in the late 1990s’, Critical Social Policy, 18, 493–517.
Dwyer, P. (2002) ‘Making sense of social citizenship: some user views on welfare rights and responsibilities’, Critical Social Policy, 22, 273–99.
Dwyer, P. (2010) Understanding Social Citizenship: Themes and Perspectives for Policy and Practice, Bristol: Policy Press.
Dwyer, P. and Wright, S. (2014) ‘Universal Credit, ubiquitous conditionality and its implications for social citizenship’, Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 22, 27–35.
Evers, A. and Guillemard, A. (eds.) (2012) Social Policy and Citizenship: The Changing Landscape, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Farnsworth, K. and Irving, Z. (2015) Social Policy in Times of Austerity: Global Economic Crisis and the New Politics of Welfare, Bristol: Policy Press.
Isin, E. (2008) ‘Theorising acts of citizenship’, in Isin, E. F. and Nielsen, G. M. (eds.), Acts of Citizenship, London: Zed Books, 15–43.
Lister, R. (1990) The Exclusive Society: Citizenship and the Poor, London: Child Poverty Action Group.
Lister, R. (2003) Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives, 2nd edn, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Lister, R. (2011) ‘The age of responsibility: social policy and citizenship in the early 21st century’, in Holden, C., Kilkey, M. and Ramia, G. (eds.), Social Policy Review 23: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, Bristol: Policy Press, 63–84.
Lister, R., Smith, N., Middleton, S. and Cox, L. (2003) ‘Young people talk about citizenship: empirical perspectives on theoretical and political debates’, Citizenship Studies, 7, 235–53.
Lupton, R., Burchardt, T., Hills, J., Stewart, K. and Vizard, P. (eds.) (2016) Social Policy in a Cold Climate: Policies and Their Consequences Since the Crisis, Bristol: Policy Press.
Marshall, T. H. (1950) Citizenship and Social Class: And Other Essays, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Orton, M. (2006) ‘Wealth, citizenship and responsibility: the views of “better off” citizens in the UK’, Citizenship Studies, 10, 251–65.
Tonkiss, K. and Bloom, T. (2015) ‘Theorising noncitizenship: concepts, debates and challenges’, Citizenship Studies, 19, 8, 837–52.
Van Houdt, F., Suvarierol, S. and Schinkel, W. (2011) ‘Neoliberal communitarian citizenship: current trends towards “earned citizenship” in the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands’, International Sociology, 26, 408–32.
Woolford, A. and Nelund, A. (2013) ‘The responsibilities of the poor: performing neoliberal citizenship within the bureaucratic field’, Social Service Review, 87, 292–318.
Wright, S. (2016) ‘Conceptualising the active welfare subject: welfare reform in discourse, policy and lived experience’, Policy and Politics, 44, 235–52.
Reports and organisations working on citizenship, austerity and welfare reform
Beatty, C. and Fothergill, S. (2016) The Uneven Impact of Welfare Reform: The Financial Losses to Places and People, Sheffield: Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University with Oxfam and Joseph Rowntree Foundation, http://www4.shu.ac.uk/research/cresr/sites/shu.ac.uk/files/welfare-reform-2016.pdf.
The Centre for Human Rights in Practice has developed a list of useful resources concerning the human rights and equality implications of welfare reforms and public spending cuts in the UK. This includes key resources, reports, toolkits and statistical data for monitoring the on-going impacts on different disadvantaged groups and different nations and regions within the UK, http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/research/centres/chrp/spendingcuts/resources.
Duffy, S. (2016) Citizenship and the Welfare State: The Need for Roots, Sheffield: The Centre for Welfare Reform, http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/uploads/attachment/487/citizenship-and-the-welfare-state.pdf.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies provides fiscal analyses of the government's tax and benefit changes, and explores their cumulative impact on different income groups, www.ifs.org.uk.
The Resolution Foundation conducts analytical research on living standards in the UK and suggests policy solutions, http://www.resolutionfoundation.org/.
The Scottish Women's Budget Group campaigns for gender budget analysis in the Scottish Government, and at the local authority level, http://www.swbg.org.uk/content/publications/.
TUC Women and the Cuts Toolkit is a toolkit for trade unions, voluntary organisations, community groups and others who want to assess the human rights and equality impact of the spending cuts on women in their communities, https://www.tuc.org.uk/sites/default/files/tucfiles/womenandcutstoolkit.pdf.
The Women's Budget Group prepares gendered budget analyses of recent Westminster budgets and autumn statements, http://wbg.org.uk/.
Lived experiences of welfare reform and austerity
Daly, M. and Kelly, G. (2015) Families and Poverty: Everyday Life on a Low Income, Bristol: Policy Press.
The Dole Animators are a group of benefit claimants who made a film about their experiences of welfare reform. Find out more about the project and watch the film, www.doleanimators.org https://doleanimators.wordpress.com/.
Garthwaite, K. (2016) Hunger Pains: Life Inside Foodbank Britain, Bristol: Policy Press.
Garthwaite, K. (2014) ‘Fear of the brown envelope: exploring welfare reform with long-term sickness benefits recipients’, Social Policy and Administration, 48, 782–98.
O'Hara, M. (2014) Austerity Bites: A Journey to the Sharp End of the Cuts in the UK, Bristol: Policy Press.
Patrick, R. (2014) ‘Working on welfare: findings from a qualitative longitudinal study into the lived experiences of welfare reform in the UK’, Journal of Social Policy, 43, 705–25.
Pemberton, S., Sutton, E., Fahmy, E. and Bell, K. (2014) Life on a Low Income in Austere Times: Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK Working Paper Series, http://www.poverty.ac.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/Life on a low income in austere times_final_report.pdf.
Reports on welfare sanctions and conditionality
Duffy, S. and Perez, W. (2014) Citizenship for All: An Accessible Guide, http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/library/by-date/citizenship-for-all-an-accessible-guide.html.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2014) Welfare Sanctions and Conditionality, https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/welfare-sanctions-and-conditionality-uk.
Perry, J., Williams, M., Sefton, T. and Haddad, M. (2014) Emergency Use Only: Understanding and Reducing the Use of Food Banks in the UK, http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/emergency-use-only-understanding-and-reducing-the-use-of-food-banks-in-the-uk-335731.
David Webster has written multiple briefings on benefit sanctions. A comprehensive list can be found here, http://www.cpag.org.uk/david-webster.
The Welfare Conditionality research project explores how effective conditionality is in changing the behaviour of those receiving welfare benefits and services and whether there are circumstances in which the use of conditionality may, or may not, be justifiable. A summary of the first wave of research findings is available at http://www.welfareconditionality.ac.uk/publication-category/initial-main-report/.
