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Modern welfare in the United Kingdom is a universal (dis)credit to Beveridge. Is it time for a basic income? (2024)
Journal Article
Beck, D., Peters, R., Bridge, G., Poitier, F., & Pearson, B. (2024). Modern welfare in the United Kingdom is a universal (dis)credit to Beveridge. Is it time for a basic income?. Social Policy and Administration, https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.13002

Universal Credit signalled a revolution in the delivery and costs of welfare provisioning. UC aimed to reduce spending on welfare, but in doing so now threatens the stability of a functioning and cohesive society. Over recent years, and most notably... Read More about Modern welfare in the United Kingdom is a universal (dis)credit to Beveridge. Is it time for a basic income?.

Experimenting with Unconditional Basic Income Lessons from the Finnish BI Experiment 2017‐2018, by Olli Kangas, Signe Jauhiainen, Miska Simanainen and Minna Ylikanno. 2021. ISBN: 978‐1‐83910‐484‐8 (2022)
Journal Article
Beck, D. (2022). Experimenting with Unconditional Basic Income Lessons from the Finnish BI Experiment 2017‐2018, by Olli Kangas, Signe Jauhiainen, Miska Simanainen and Minna Ylikanno. 2021. ISBN: 978‐1‐83910‐484‐8. Social Policy and Administration, 57(3), 456-457. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12839

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The food bank : a safety-net in place of welfare security in times of austerity and the Covid-19 crisis (2022)
Journal Article
Beck, D., & Gwilym, H. (2022). The food bank : a safety-net in place of welfare security in times of austerity and the Covid-19 crisis. Social Policy and Society, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746421000907

The food bank has become a charitable safety-net for those who have been failed by the social security system in times of austerity and during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this article we evidence the rise of food banking in the context of declining s... Read More about The food bank : a safety-net in place of welfare security in times of austerity and the Covid-19 crisis.

Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Tiina Silvasti (eds) (2020), The Rise of Food Charity in Europe, Bristol: Policy Press, £75.00, pp. 272, hbk. (2021)
Journal Article
Beck, D. (2021). Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Tiina Silvasti (eds) (2020), The Rise of Food Charity in Europe, Bristol: Policy Press, £75.00, pp. 272, hbk. Journal of Social Policy, 50(2), 446-447. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279421000064

Question; what is significant about the rise of food charity across various European countries? Explored with significant detail, this edited volume sufficiently answers this question by drawing on four key areas associated with the rise of food pove... Read More about Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Tiina Silvasti (eds) (2020), The Rise of Food Charity in Europe, Bristol: Policy Press, £75.00, pp. 272, hbk..

Poverty premiums : cost of being poor (2020)
Journal Article
Beck, D. (2020). Poverty premiums : cost of being poor. Encyclopedia of the UN sustainable development goals (Online), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69625-6_110-1

“Life is more expensive than we can tolerate” Linda Tirado (2014) Poverty within a developed country is typically considered within “relative” terms. This means that people experience poverty relative to those within their society. This acknowled... Read More about Poverty premiums : cost of being poor.

The moral maze of food bank use (2020)
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Beck, D., & Gwilym, H. (2020). The moral maze of food bank use. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 28(3), 383-399. https://doi.org/10.1332/175982720X15905998909942

The foodbank symbolises a changing landscape of social insecurity and welfare conditionality. Attending to decision making within the food bank system, this article argues that food banks, and their referral-system creates a bureaucratic ‘moral maz... Read More about The moral maze of food bank use.

The moral maze of foodbank use (2020)
Journal Article
Beck, D., & Gwilym, H. (2020). The moral maze of foodbank use. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 28(3), 383-399. https://doi.org/10.1332/175982720X15905998909942

The foodbank symbolises a changing landscape of social insecurity and welfare conditionality. Attending to decision making within the foodbank system, this article argues that foodbanks, and their referral-system creates a bureaucratic ‘moral maze’ i... Read More about The moral maze of foodbank use.