Series: Civil Society and Social Change

Women, Work and the Everyday Politics of Welfare draws on interviews with welfare-reliant single mothers living in the South Wales Valleys. This original book charts their interactions with the labour market and welfare state. It challenges current understandings of welfare eligibility and dependency and provides valuable new policy insights for welfare reform.

Against a backdrop of increasingly mixed economies of welfare, Youth Unemployment and Devolution explores civil society responses to youth unemployment in a quasi-federal or devolved state post-Brexit and following COVID-19.

Despite increasing legal recognition of animal rights, policy making remains inconsistent, and civil society's role in shaping governance is underexplored. Applying extensive research and interviews with key animal welfare organisations, Civil Society Activism and Animal Welfare Rights examines the challenges, progress, and future prospects of civil society activism.