Sharon Wright is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Glasgow.

• 1. What Does Work-based Welfare Reform Mean for Women?2. Re-Theorising Conditional Welfare As Gendered Lived Experience and Street-Level Practice3. Policy Context: The Hidden Gendered Impacts of Conditional Welfare Reforms4. Re-Writing Retirement As ‘Work Experience’: Older Women’s Gendered Encounters With the Work Ethic5. Crushing Conditionality: Women Living Through Heavily Enforced Work-Related Conditionality6. In the Shadow of Sanctions: Disciplining Women and Children for Violating Male-Defined Work Norms7. ConclusionsAppendix 1: The Welfare Conditionality StudyAppendix 2: Sanctions Overviews

"All in all, this is a highly recommended book for both academics and (hopefully) also politicians and policy makers in the field of social security law." Journal of Social Security Law

Sharon Wright is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Glasgow.

• 1. What Does Work-based Welfare Reform Mean for Women?2. Re-Theorising Conditional Welfare As Gendered Lived Experience and Street-Level Practice3. Policy Context: The Hidden Gendered Impacts of Conditional Welfare Reforms4. Re-Writing Retirement As ‘Work Experience’: Older Women’s Gendered Encounters With the Work Ethic5. Crushing Conditionality: Women Living Through Heavily Enforced Work-Related Conditionality6. In the Shadow of Sanctions: Disciplining Women and Children for Violating Male-Defined Work Norms7. ConclusionsAppendix 1: The Welfare Conditionality StudyAppendix 2: Sanctions Overviews

"All in all, this is a highly recommended book for both academics and (hopefully) also politicians and policy makers in the field of social security law." Journal of Social Security Law

Sharon Wright is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Glasgow.

• 1. What Does Work-based Welfare Reform Mean for Women?2. Re-Theorising Conditional Welfare As Gendered Lived Experience and Street-Level Practice3. Policy Context: The Hidden Gendered Impacts of Conditional Welfare Reforms4. Re-Writing Retirement As ‘Work Experience’: Older Women’s Gendered Encounters With the Work Ethic5. Crushing Conditionality: Women Living Through Heavily Enforced Work-Related Conditionality6. In the Shadow of Sanctions: Disciplining Women and Children for Violating Male-Defined Work Norms7. ConclusionsAppendix 1: The Welfare Conditionality StudyAppendix 2: Sanctions Overviews

"All in all, this is a highly recommended book for both academics and (hopefully) also politicians and policy makers in the field of social security law." Journal of Social Security Law