Ineligible

Krys Maki is an activist scholar specializing in mixed-methods community-based participatory research. They currently work as the research and policy manager at Women’s Shelters Canada, a national network of violence against women shelters based in Ottawa, Ontario.

• : Introduction: Welfare Surveillance, Regulation, and Mothering on the Margins: The Feminization of Poverty, a “No-Win” Situation : Key Concepts and Terms: Methods : Summary of Book A Brief History of Welfare Surveillance in Ontario : Surveillance Stitched into the Fabric of the Emerging Social Safety Net Mapping the Welfare Surveillance Apparatus: Surveillance and Discrimination: Technological Surveillance and Regulation: Moral Surveillance and RegulationCaught in a Web of Surveillance: Interviews with Single Mothers on Social Assistance: Experiencing Welfare Surveillance : Relationships with Welfare CaseworkersExpanding the Welfare Surveillance Apparatus: The Family Responsibility Office and Ontario Works : The Children’s Aid Society: Indigenous Mothers, Surveillance, and Child WelfareSocial Workers, Financial Advisors, or Authoritarian Overseers? : Interviewing Frontline Caseworkers : New Public Management and Workplace Surveillance: How Caseworkers Understand Welfare Surveillance : Job Satisfaction and Workplace Health and SafetyCounternarratives: Building Dialogues of Resistance: Counternarratives, Disruptions, and Subversions: Notes: References: Index

Making up for the dearth of feminist research on the interplay of surveillance and poverty, ‘Ineligible’. combines feminist political theory, moral regulation, and theories of surveillance to offer a unique insight into the cross-disciplinary connections that stretch beyond the traditional theoretical frameworks of each discipline. In doing so, Maki presents their participants’ lived experiences as integral to their construction of knowledge. Thus, Maki builds a conceptual model of Ontario Works that is both accessible and a welcome addition to the controversial interaction between welfare scrutiny and assistance. By uncovering how state regulation manifests in the daily lives of Ontarian single mothers, Maki expertly demonstrates how detrimental welfare surveillance and moral regulation are to their individual experiences.