A Double Helix: The Intertwined History of the Marginalisation of Welfare Clients and Their Activist Lawyers and Advisers in the Transformation of the Welfare State in England and Wales

Pete Sanderson; Hilary Sommerlad

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-46637-3_5

A Double Helix: The Intertwined History of the Marginalisation of Welfare Clients and Their Activist Lawyers and Advisers in the Transformation of the Welfare State in England and Wales

Pete Sanderson, Hilary Sommerlad

University of Leeds

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Abstract

This chapter draws on four qualitative studies conducted in England from the mid-1990s to 2015, to trace the intertwined stories of the emergence, flourishing and decline of activist welfare professionals committed to democratising access to justice and the expansion of and subsequent restriction in legal subjectivity. It situates these professionals’ role conception and practices in post-war UK social citizenship and shows how the neo-liberal project to construct an exclusionary form of citizenship entailed restrictions in access to the law. The data is used to highlight the relationship between the resulting impoverishment and disenfranchisement of welfare clients and the de-professionalisation of their lawyers and legal advisers and explores the mechanisms by which these twin goals were achieved.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Transformations of European Welfare States and Social Rights
Subtitle of host publication	Regulation, Professionals, and Citizens
Editors	Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen, Ole Hammerslev
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Chapter	5
Pages	83-101
Number of pages	19
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031466373
ISBN (Print)	9783031466366, 9783031466397
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46637-3_5
Publication status	Published - 30 Dec 2023

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Name	Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan Cham
Volume	Part F2018
ISSN (Print)	2947-9274
ISSN (Electronic)	2947-9282

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Sanderson, P., & Sommerlad, H. (2023). A Double Helix: The Intertwined History of the Marginalisation of Welfare Clients and Their Activist Lawyers and Advisers in the Transformation of the Welfare State in England and Wales. In S. P. Porner Nielsen, & O. Hammerslev (Eds.), Transformations of European Welfare States and Social Rights: Regulation, Professionals, and Citizens (1st ed., pp. 83-101). (Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies; Vol. Part F2018). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46637-3_5

Sanderson, Pete ; Sommerlad, Hilary. / A Double Helix : The Intertwined History of the Marginalisation of Welfare Clients and Their Activist Lawyers and Advisers in the Transformation of the Welfare State in England and Wales. Transformations of European Welfare States and Social Rights: Regulation, Professionals, and Citizens. editor / Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen ; Ole Hammerslev. 1st. ed. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2023. pp. 83-101 (Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies).

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Sanderson, P & Sommerlad, H 2023, A Double Helix: The Intertwined History of the Marginalisation of Welfare Clients and Their Activist Lawyers and Advisers in the Transformation of the Welfare State in England and Wales. in SP Porner Nielsen & O Hammerslev (eds), Transformations of European Welfare States and Social Rights: Regulation, Professionals, and Citizens. 1st edn, Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies, vol. Part F2018, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Cham, pp. 83-101. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46637-3_5

A Double Helix: The Intertwined History of the Marginalisation of Welfare Clients and Their Activist Lawyers and Advisers in the Transformation of the Welfare State in England and Wales. / Sanderson, Pete; Sommerlad, Hilary.
Transformations of European Welfare States and Social Rights: Regulation, Professionals, and Citizens. ed. / Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen; Ole Hammerslev. 1st. ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2023. p. 83-101 (Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies; Vol. Part F2018).

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Sanderson P, Sommerlad H. A Double Helix: The Intertwined History of the Marginalisation of Welfare Clients and Their Activist Lawyers and Advisers in the Transformation of the Welfare State in England and Wales. In Porner Nielsen SP, Hammerslev O, editors, Transformations of European Welfare States and Social Rights: Regulation, Professionals, and Citizens. 1st ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. 2023. p. 83-101. (Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies). Epub 2023 Dec 29. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-46637-3_5

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