Unjust Conditions
eBook - ePub

Unjust Conditions

Women's Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs

  1. 212 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Unjust Conditions

Women's Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs

Book details
Table of contents
Citations

About This Book

A free ebook version of this title is available throughLuminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Unjust Conditions follows the lives and labors of poor mothers in rural Peru, richly documenting the ordeals they face to participate in mainstream poverty alleviation programs. Championed by behavioral economists and the World Bank, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are praised as efficient mechanisms for changing poor people's behavior. While rooted in good intentions and dripping with the rhetoric of social inclusion, CCT programs' successes ring hollow, based solely on metrics for children's attendance at school and health appointments. Looking beyond these statistics reveals a host of hidden costs for the mothers who meet the conditions. With a poignant voice and keen focus on ethnographic research, Tara PatriciaCooksonturns the reader's gaze to women's care work in landscapes of grossly inadequate state investment, cleverly drawing out the tensions between social inclusion and conditionality.

Frequently asked questions

Simply head over to the account section in settings and click on “Cancel Subscription” - it’s as simple as that. After you cancel, your membership will stay active for the remainder of the time you’ve paid for. Learn more here.
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlego’s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan you’ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes, you can access Unjust Conditions by Tara Patricia Cookson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Gender Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780520969520
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Map of Peru
  9. 1 Introduction: Making Aid Conditional
  10. 2 Setting the Conditions
  11. 3 The Ironic Conditions of Clinics and Schools
  12. 4 Rural Women Walking and Waiting
  13. 5 Paid and Unpaid Labor on the Frontline State
  14. 6 Shadow Conditions and the Immeasurable Burden of Improvement
  15. 7 Conclusion: Toward a Caring Society
  16. Notes
  17. References