The Work Connection: The Role of Social Security in British Economic Regulation - Couverture souple

Stewart, J.; Grover, Chris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1349413305 ISBN 13 : 9781349413300

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Synopsis

The authors use regulation to explain the antecedents to current welfare developments in Britain. From discussion of the 'Speenhamland System', the struggle for Family Allowance and a National Minimum Wage, they show how first a Conservative government in the 1970s, and more recently 'New Labour', have used in-work benefits so that today they have become the preferred instrument of intervention in the labour market for setting wages. The authors discuss the ways in which these measures - the new deals for lone parents and young people and the working family tax credit - address issues of child poverty and the adequacy of incomes, and how far they are disciplining devices to encourage a new moral order, supportive of family life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

CHRIS GROVER is Lecturer in Applied Social Science in the Department of Applied Social Science, Lancaster University.

JOHN STEWART is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the Department of Applied Social Science, Lancaster University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1349413305
• ISBN 13: 9781349413300
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 247
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