Half a Citizen by John Murphy

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Half a Citizen by John Murphy

Explores behind the unemployment statistics to shed new light on what it is like to live on a low income and experience the brunt of welfare reform, exploding the persistent myth that welfare recipients don't contribute to society.
Suellen Murray is a senior research fellow at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University. She is the author of More Than Refuge: Changing Responses to Domestic Violence. John Murphy is the associate dean of research in the faculty of arts at the University of Melbourne and a former director of the Australian Centre. He is the former director of the Center for Applied Social Research at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University. Elizabeth Branigan is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University. She has worked as a senior research officer at the Australian Institute of Family Studies and has taught in social sciences at Victoria and Swinburne Universities. Jenny Malone is a social worker with experience in the area of homelessness, social policy, and the labor market. She is a former research assistant at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University.
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ISBN 13 9781742376059
ISBN 10 1742376053
Title Half a Citizen
Author John Murphy
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Year published 2011-07-01
Number of pages 252
Prizes Winner of Human Rights Awards 2011 (Australia)
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