Telling Tales

“Telling Tales offers a sharp and compelling critique of neoliberal policies that erode incomes, increase surveillance, and further endanger those with the fewest resources. This is an excellent book that should be widely read by those with an interest in social policy and issues of poverty and marginalization.”

-- Patricia M. Evans, School of Social Work, Carleton University

“This remarkable book makes policy come alive. The authors peal away the complex, compounding and cumulative impact of rapid public policy changes. Vivid stories provide the fulcrum of chapters on how individuals and families provision for their households and respond to dislocating changes in employment, income, health, immigration, education, and social services policies. Findings are generalized through analysis of policies and secondary material. Unique is the attention to how persons varying in their social location interpret their situation and explain their anticipated futures. Teachers, students, policy analysts and scholars are challenged to think in new ways about policy analysis and research as they engage with the convincing evidence and lucid arguments of Telling Tales that policies can systematically exacerbate the insecurities they are intended to address.”

-- Marge Reitsma-Street, Studies in Policy and Practice, University of Victoria, British Colu