Description: Unjust Conditions Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Women's Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs Author(s): Tara Patricia Cookson Format: Paperback Publisher: University of California Press, United States Imprint: University of California Press ISBN-13: 9780520296992, 978-0520296992 Synopsis A free ---- version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit [url] 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 Patricia Cookson turns 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.
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Book Title: Unjust Conditions
Number of Pages: 212 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Unjust Conditions: Women's Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Economics, Zoology, Anthropology, History
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 272 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Tara Patricia Cookson
Subject Area: Economic Sociology
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
