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Caught in a Web of Surveillance
Life under the Watchful Eye of Ontario Works
From: Ineligble
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This chapter centres the voices of welfare recipients. Their narratives emphasize the dehumanizing experiences of OW’s constant surveillance, inadequate benefits, and workfare demands as well as the negative impacts these pressures have on their ability to mother their children. Their stories also reveal how supposedly race- and gender-neutral neoliberal policies do not bring about greater equality but instead exacerbate the oppression of those on the economic margins of society.
Contributors
Krys Maki
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.
