How welfare-to-work requirements impact on single parents' volunteer activities Cook, Kay, Ward, Brooke, McKenzie, Hayley, Noblet, Andrew and Bodsworth, Eve 2009, How welfare-to-work requirements impact on single parents' volunteer activities, Australian journal on volunteering, vol. 14, pp. 1-8. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title How welfare-to-work requirements impact on single parents' volunteer activities Author(s) Cook, Kay Ward, Brooke McKenzie, Hayley orcid.org/0000-0002-9871-3740 Noblet, Andrew orcid.org/0000-0002-3498-6838 Bodsworth, Eve Journal name Australian journal on volunteering Volume number 14 Start page 1 End page 8 Total pages 8 Publisher Volunteering Australia Place of publication Melbourne, Vic. Publication date 2009 ISSN 1325-8362 1836-0246 Summary This paper seeks to describe the volunteering experiences of female single parents engaged in Australia's welfare-to-work program. Interviews were conducted with 26 single parents who had been required to increase their hours of work as a condition of the Centrelink policy introduced in 2006. To analyse the data, the technique of rich point analysis was employed which identified three key concepts central to the women's experiences.  These concepts included the nature of a decent job, notions of reciprocity, and a seeming hierarchy of suitable jobs promoted within the welfareto- work policy. How volunteer activities fit within these constructs was the focus of the investigation. The analysis revealed that the types of paid jobs women obtained were less fulfilling and flexible than their volunteer activities. and gave them less sense of contributing to society, Further, in most cases prior to welfare reform, these single mothers were volunteering in their children's school and as such, both the school's capacity and intergenerational role modelling of volunteering were depleted. Language eng Field of Research 111712 Health Promotion Socio Economic Objective 920208 Health Policy Evaluation HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal HERDC collection year 2009 Copyright notice ©2009, Volunteering Australia Inc. Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30020749 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Business and Law Deakin Business School Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 27 Oct 2009, 16:59:13 EST Wed, 28 Oct 2009, 08:54:48 EST Wed, 28 Oct 2009, 08:56:03 EST Wed, 28 Oct 2009, 08:57:30 EST Mon, 14 Dec 2009, 14:08:10 EST Mon, 14 Dec 2009, 14:17:03 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 13:29:48 EST Wed, 02 Jul 2014, 09:40:55 EST Mon, 19 Jan 2015, 10:57:05 EST Fri, 06 Feb 2015, 10:30:40 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1286 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 27 Oct 2009, 16:59:10 EST by Lee-Ann Stones