Living in a COVID-19 Economy
Following the 2008 global financial crisis, we saw an economic downturn which trigged a period of welfare cuts, high rates of unemployment and increasing social inequality. As the COVID-19 pandemic forced economies to shut down, the world began to brace itself for an even greater period of economic instability, in which past research takes on renewed relevance.
We have created a collection of articles which examine economic crises and their effects on politics, poverty and social justice.
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The collection explores the following themes:
Social impacts of recession and austerity
Poverty and social security
The consequences of precarious work
Food insecurity
Economic risk
Neoliberalism, Capitalism and Marxism
Social impacts of recession and austerity
Critical and Radical Social Work
The crash 10 years on
Michael Lavalette
Policy & Politics
Austerity in the making: reconfiguring social policy through social impact bonds
Meghan Joy and John Shields
Depoliticising austerity: narratives of the Portuguese debt crisis 2011–15
Adam Standring
Local governance under austerity: hybrid organisations and hybrid officers [Open Access]
Madeleine Pill and Valeria Guarneros-Meza
The impact of austerity on policy capacity in local government
Peter Eckersley and Paul Tobin
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
From the special issue The Impact of the Great Recession on Younger Workers
Editorial: The impact of the Great Recession on younger workers
Jon D. Miller
Young people and the Great Recession: Variations in the school-to-work transition in Europe and the United States
Ingrid Schoon and John Bynner
Labour market entry and early career mobility shortly before, during and after the Great Recession in Germany
Pia N. Blossfeld
The impact of the Great Recession on Generation X
Jon D. Miller and Claire Cepuran
The impact of the Great Recession on the ability of parents to fund their children's college education
Sandra Tang and Jon D. Miller
The impact of the Great Recession on educational pursuits in adulthood in the US
Lindsay H. Ryan
Families, Relationships and Societies
Beyond the ‘stop gap’: young (adult) women’s experiences of living with parents in the aftermath of the Greek austerity crisis
Julia Kazana-McCarthy
Coping with hard times: the role that support networks play for lone mother families in times of economic crisis and government austerity
James Canton
Poverty and social security
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
Winner ‐ 2019 Best Paper Prize of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security
Timing it right or timing it wrong: how should income-tested benefits deal with changes in circumstances?
Jane Millar and Peter Whiteford
An agenda for fixing the social security/welfare benefits system
Sarah Batty and Michael Orton
Universal simplicity? The alleged simplicity of Universal Credit from administrative and claimant perspectives
Kate Summers and David Young
Basic income and a public job offer: complementary policies to reduce poverty and unemployment
Felix FitzRoy and and Jim Jin
Policy & Politics
Legitimising a radical policy idea: framing basic income as a boost to labour market activity
Johanna Perkiö
Evidence & Policy
Measuring the health impact of Universal Basic Income as an upstream intervention: holistic trial design that captures stress reduction is essential
Elliott Aidan Johnson, Matthew Thomas Johnson, and Laura Webber
Journal of Gender-Based Violence
Poverty and domestic violence and abuse (DVA) in the UK
Eldin Fahmy and Emma Williamson
Critical and Radical Social Work
Universal Credit, lone mothers and poverty: some context and challenges for social work with children and families
Malcolm Carey and Sophie Bell
The consequences of precarious work
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
The quarter-life crisis? Precarious labour market status and mental health among 25-year-olds in England
Morag Henderson
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
The impact of precarious employment on the health and wellbeing of UK immigrants: a systematic review
Michael Obinna Muoka and Monique Lhussier
Self-employment and social protection: understanding variations between welfare regimes
Slavina Spasova et al.
Precariousness among solo self-employed workers: a German‐Dutch comparison
Wieteke Conen and Karin Schulze Buschoff
Families, Relationships and Socieites
Becoming primary caregivers? Unemployed fathers caring alone in Spain
Concepción Castrillo et al.
Journal of Psychosocial Studies
Unemployment: a psychoanalytic approach to families of unemployed workers
Belinda Mandelbaum
Critical and Radical Social Work
Entering precarious job markets in the era of austerity measures: the perceptions of Master of Social Work students
Karun Kishor Karki et al.
International Journal of Care and Caring
‘Personalised risk’ in paid care work and the impacts of ‘gig economy’ care platforms and other market-based organisations
Fiona Macdonald
Food insecurity
Voluntary Sector Review
"We're not a bottomless pit": food banks' capacity to sustainably meet increasing demand
Steve Iafrati
Why do people use food banks? A qualitative study of food bank users in an English city
David Wainwright et al.
Feeding the debate: a local food bank explains itself
Heather Buckingham and Andy Jolley
Exploring volunteering in a food bank and psychological wellbeing
Simon Armour and Gil Barton
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
The moral maze of foodbank use
David Beck and Hefin Gwilym
Taking stock of the ambiguous role of foodbanks in the fight against poverty
Tuur Ghys
‘The do-gooders and scroungers’: examining narratives of foodbank use in online local press coverage in the West Midlands, UK
Catherine Price et al.
Critical and Radical Social Work
The politics of hunger and the legacy of resistance in postcolonial social work
Melinda Madew and Jason M. Leung
Economic Risk
Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice
Dangling at the Abyss: How Deadweight Costs and Political Attitudes May Prevent (or Induce) Collapse
J. R. Clark and John Garen
Funding the fiscal commons: does a larger share of rich citizens hasten or delay the trip to default?
Jody W. Lipford and Bruce Yandle
Market versus government failures under risk and under uncertainty
Giuseppe Ciccarone
Neoliberalism, Capitalism and Marxism
Global Discourse
The politics of neoliberalisation and resistance in post-crash Northern Ireland
Seán Byers
Contemporary capitalism, uneven development, and the arc of anti-capitalism
Latham
Is homo oeconomicus an extinct species, and does it matter for EUropean integration? Attitudes towards free trade and populism
Bogna Gawroska-Nowak
Neoliberalism as a historical stage
Karatani
From Domination to Emancipation and Freedom: Reading Ernesto Laclau's Post-Marxism in Conjunction with Philip Pettit's Neo-republicanism
Gulshan Khan
Rethinking the left: a view from Latin America
Munck
Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe: The Evolution of Post-marxism
Philip Goldstein
Journal of Psychosocial Studies
The psychosocial significance of social character, habitus and structures of feeling in research on neoliberal post-industrial work
Luis Jimenez
Critical and Radical Social Work
Social work, neoliberalism and authoritarianism: an analysis of the policy document 'Regulating social workers'
Hefin Gwilym
Using Fraser’s model of ‘progressive neoliberalism’ to analyse deinstitutionalisation and community care
Ian Cummins
Marx: alienation, commodity fetishism and the world of contemporary social work
Michael Lavalette and Iain Ferguson
Engels and the perennial housing crisis
Glyn Robbins