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activists have shown that there are cracks in the system — where caseworkers can resist the requirement to surveil every aspect of recipients’ lives and instead decide to look the other way. Where policy can be enacted, it can be resisted and perhaps even dismantled. Resistance, in its various forms, its potential for social transformation, and its strategies are explored in the conclusion.

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1. For a great resource on the racialization of poverty, see Colour of Poverty–Colour of Change 2019.