Emma Renold, Gabrielle Ivinson, Gareth Thomas, and Eva Elliott
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781447348016
- eISBN:
- 9781447348061
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447348016.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter tells the story of a research-engagement project called Making, Mapping and Mobilising in Merthyr (otherwise known as the 4Ms project). The project explored young people's sense of place ...
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This chapter tells the story of a research-engagement project called Making, Mapping and Mobilising in Merthyr (otherwise known as the 4Ms project). The project explored young people's sense of place and well-being while growing up in Merthyr Tydfil (hereafter referred to as Merthyr), a small post-industrial ex-mining and steel-making town in the South Wales Valleys. Once a hub of industrial activity and innovation, Merthyr has experienced a deep social rupture in recent years owing to deindustrialisation and the closure of ironworks, coal mines, and manufacturing industries that had served as cultural links underpinning the rhythms and rituals of Valleys life. The 4Ms project took place predominantly in a housing estate based on a design reputed to have been inspired in the 1950s by romantic Italian hilltop villages. The estate expanded in the 1970s, and by the 2000s, had become dilapidated and a place with high levels of unemployment. In a context of tightening austerity, this housing estate and the people living there have been subject to stigmatising media accounts fuelled by television's ‘poverty porn’ industry and, at times, by local residents themselves. The ‘realities’ of poverty tend to be portrayed in popular media through no-hope narratives of despair.Less
This chapter tells the story of a research-engagement project called Making, Mapping and Mobilising in Merthyr (otherwise known as the 4Ms project). The project explored young people's sense of place and well-being while growing up in Merthyr Tydfil (hereafter referred to as Merthyr), a small post-industrial ex-mining and steel-making town in the South Wales Valleys. Once a hub of industrial activity and innovation, Merthyr has experienced a deep social rupture in recent years owing to deindustrialisation and the closure of ironworks, coal mines, and manufacturing industries that had served as cultural links underpinning the rhythms and rituals of Valleys life. The 4Ms project took place predominantly in a housing estate based on a design reputed to have been inspired in the 1950s by romantic Italian hilltop villages. The estate expanded in the 1970s, and by the 2000s, had become dilapidated and a place with high levels of unemployment. In a context of tightening austerity, this housing estate and the people living there have been subject to stigmatising media accounts fuelled by television's ‘poverty porn’ industry and, at times, by local residents themselves. The ‘realities’ of poverty tend to be portrayed in popular media through no-hope narratives of despair.
K. D. Ewing
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198254393
- eISBN:
- 9780191681486
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198254393.003.0006
- Subject:
- Law, Employment Law, Human Rights and Immigration
This chapter deals with the treatment of strikers in social welfare law. It considers the rights of access to social welfare benefits provided by the state to those who have no other sources of ...
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This chapter deals with the treatment of strikers in social welfare law. It considers the rights of access to social welfare benefits provided by the state to those who have no other sources of income or those whose supply of income is inadequate. Five schemes have been in operation to provide for the unemployed who do not have the means of personal support. These schemes are the poor law; unemployment assistance; national assistance; supplementary benefit; and income support. Policy on the payment of social welfare to strikers has been inspired throughout the 20th century by the Merthyr Tydfil decision of 1900.Less
This chapter deals with the treatment of strikers in social welfare law. It considers the rights of access to social welfare benefits provided by the state to those who have no other sources of income or those whose supply of income is inadequate. Five schemes have been in operation to provide for the unemployed who do not have the means of personal support. These schemes are the poor law; unemployment assistance; national assistance; supplementary benefit; and income support. Policy on the payment of social welfare to strikers has been inspired throughout the 20th century by the Merthyr Tydfil decision of 1900.
Bob Holman
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861343536
- eISBN:
- 9781447301653
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861343536.003.0005
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
If John Stroud spread understanding of the ‘new’ child care to the public, Clare Winnicott was the leading figure who trained staff for the child-care service. She had clearly taken on much of her ...
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If John Stroud spread understanding of the ‘new’ child care to the public, Clare Winnicott was the leading figure who trained staff for the child-care service. She had clearly taken on much of her parents' concern for underprivileged families. This always remained with Winnicott, but, at some point around this time, she parted company with Christianity and declared herself to be an atheist and socialist. In 1937, she went to the London School of Economics and Political Science as a student on the one-year social-science course. On completion, Winnicott obtained a post with the Commissioners for Special Areas as a club organiser for unemployed juveniles in Merthyr Tydfil, one of the most deprived areas in Britain. Her involvement in youth-club work, her concern for deprived areas, and her allegiance to socialism reflected a person who wanted to improve the environment of poor people. Winnicott's contribution to child care is usually regarded as the establishment of training for child-care officers. Winnicott concentrated mainly on children separated from their parents, whether poor or not.Less
If John Stroud spread understanding of the ‘new’ child care to the public, Clare Winnicott was the leading figure who trained staff for the child-care service. She had clearly taken on much of her parents' concern for underprivileged families. This always remained with Winnicott, but, at some point around this time, she parted company with Christianity and declared herself to be an atheist and socialist. In 1937, she went to the London School of Economics and Political Science as a student on the one-year social-science course. On completion, Winnicott obtained a post with the Commissioners for Special Areas as a club organiser for unemployed juveniles in Merthyr Tydfil, one of the most deprived areas in Britain. Her involvement in youth-club work, her concern for deprived areas, and her allegiance to socialism reflected a person who wanted to improve the environment of poor people. Winnicott's contribution to child care is usually regarded as the establishment of training for child-care officers. Winnicott concentrated mainly on children separated from their parents, whether poor or not.