Networks, Place and Identities in Post‐industrial Mining Communities

Strangleman, Tim

doi:10.1111/1468-2427.00310

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“…IB receipt not only grew, but was arguably used as a smokescreen to hide growing levels of unemployment. For those in their late fifties at the time of closure, this was a fairly unproblematic step; few who have worked in the industry for a couple of decades have not picked up injuries that limit their actions in some way (Strangleman 2002). Yet it is 9 important to note that at this time, being on sickness benefits was not equated to being 'undeserving'.…”

Section: Barriers For Ib Recipientsmentioning

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‘The unwilling and the unwell’? Exploring stakeholders’ perceptions of working with long term sickness benefits recipients

Garthwaite

Bambra

Warren

2013

Disability & Society

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractThis paper draws on qualitative research with Incapacity Benefit (IB) stakeholders in the North East of England, UK. Stakeholders' experiences of working with long-term sickness benefits recipients reveal multiple barriers that both sick and disabled people, and themselves as practitioners, clearly face. Reflections on what ongoing welfare reform could mean for future practice for both stakeholders and recipients will be explored. The findings suggests that whilst stakeholders recognise the complex barriers faced by those receiving sickness benefits, a wider moral dialogue between 'deserving' and 'undeserving' is being created and sustained as a result of negative stereotyping of sickness benefits recipients.

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Section: Barriers For Ib Recipientsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘The unwilling and the unwell’? Exploring stakeholders’ perceptions of working with long term sickness benefits recipients

Garthwaite

Bambra

Warren

2013

Disability & Society

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“…Based on literature retrieval (Ray, 1980, Strangleman, 2002, Vargas-Sánches et al, 2009, Lockie et al, 2009or Krzysztofik et al, 2013, Frantál and Nováková, 2014 such elements are represented by these statements: 1) Coal mining is a perspective branch of economy, which is worth building the image on; 2) To preserve jobs in the coal mining industry is a necessity for the future of the city;…”

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The expansion of coal mining in the depression areas – a way to development? - See more at: http://www.humangeographies.org.ro/81-toc#sthash.MADTV1Ic.dpuf

Martinát¹,

Navrátil²,

Dvořák³

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Abstract:The coal has been mined in the Karviná area for more than 150 years. During the course of time mining areas were continuously extended at the expense of the settled areas. At the beginnings the mining was limited, but later, namely under conditions of centrally planned economy in the period between 1950s and 1980s, it was heavily intensified. Then, as a result of economic restructuring of the Czech Republic mining was reduced in the region to be re-developed in the last decade again. The expansion of coal mining has been continuously affecting the socio-economic structure of local population (huge working immigration, industrialisation, construction of mass housing for miners -miners dormitories, later housing estates etc., displacement of settlements), surrounding landscape (subsidence of terrain, undermining, hydrological changes and formation of artificial lakes, occurrence of plenty of post-mining brownfields after the reduction of mining etc.), but also contemporary outward, image and socio-spatial structure of cities (dominance housing in housing estates, effects of communists spatial urban planning etc.). Currently, negotiations about expansion of coal mining are in progress in this region, namely the city parts of Karviná (Staré Město) and Orlová (Výhoda) should be affected. In the introductory parts of this paper social, economical and environmental aspects of coal mining on the development of regions and connected problems are discussed and both cities are shortly presented. The questionnaire survey focused on perceptions of after-mining renewal and potential expansion of mining in the area of cities of Karviná and Orlová was conducted (n=1000). As the most important predictor that influences perception of mining and renewal, employment in mining companies has been identified. The higher education respondents achieved, the higher level of opposition against mining was manifested. The correlation was also found between the level of income and the agreement with expansion of mining. It can be concluded that employees of mining company, less educated population and people with higher income agreed with economic development of the city that is based on mining.

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“…Many of these strategies, including those that have to do with welfare provision, such as informal childcare by grandparents or support of the elderly by younger generations, are found all over the world (Polese et al, 2014;Strangleman, 2001). Here, I present a rather typical post-Soviet example of livelihood strategy of a family of two engineers, Nadir and Lena.…”

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Negotiating welfare with the informalizing state: Formal and informal practices among engineers in post-Soviet Azerbaijan

Sayfutdinova

2015

Journal of Eurasian Studies

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a b s t r a c tThis article discusses the use of informal practices in negotiating welfare with state institutions in Azerbaijan. One of the effects of transition to market economies in the postsocialist countries has been the partial withdrawal of the state from welfare provision and residualization of welfare. Recent research has shown that informal practices play an important role in "structuring welfare from below" (Morris & Polese, 2014b) across postsocialist realm. Based on in-depth interviews with engineers at different periods of their careers, namely mid-career, working pensioners, and engineering students, this article demonstrates how formal and informal institutions and practices are strategically used by individuals, families, and low level bureaucrats to achieve desired career and welfare goals. Rather than compensating for the deficiencies of formal rules and institutions, formal and informal are intertwined and merged and are actively employed both by the citizens and state institutions.

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Networks, Place and Identities in Post‐industrial Mining Communities

Cited by 100 publications

References 4 publications

‘The unwilling and the unwell’? Exploring stakeholders’ perceptions of working with long term sickness benefits recipients

‘The unwilling and the unwell’? Exploring stakeholders’ perceptions of working with long term sickness benefits recipients

The expansion of coal mining in the depression areas – a way to development? - See more at: http://www.humangeographies.org.ro/81-toc#sthash.MADTV1Ic.dpuf

Negotiating welfare with the informalizing state: Formal and informal practices among engineers in post-Soviet Azerbaijan

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