Making of a Welfare Class: Benefit Receipt in Britain - Couverture souple

Walker, Robert; Howard, Marilyn

 
9781861342355: Making of a Welfare Class: Benefit Receipt in Britain
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1861342357 ISBN 13 : 9781861342355
Editeur : Policy Press, 2000

Synopsis

Over the last three decades Britain has witnessed an unprecedented rise in the number of people receiving welfare benefits that has provoked fears of a growing underclass and mass welfare dependency. The making of a welfare class? provides the first comprehensive analysis of the reasons for this growth and subjects notions of welfare dependency and the underclass to empirical test. It focuses on four principal groups of benefit recipients - children and families, retirement pensioners, disabled people, and unemployed people - and, using important new evidence, explores the relative importance of economic, demographic, institutional and normative factors in the pattern of growth. The book addresses a phenomenon - growth in benefit recipiency - which is common to all advanced industrial countries and nowhere well understood. As a central focus of government policy and a key development in modern society, the issues explored in the book will therefore be of interest to academics and policy commentators alike. Written in an accessible style and assuming no prior knowledge, with succinct chapters, elegant summaries and extensive use of graphics, complex arguments appear simple. A comprehensive glossary of technical terms is included. As a result, The making of a welfare class? is compulsory reading for undergraduates and postgraduate students of sociology, social policy and economics and anyone else interested in the development of modern British society and welfare policy.

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À propos des auteurs

Robert Walker is Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College.

Marilyn Howard is an independent researcher and a specialist on disability benefits

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Éditeur
Policy Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1861342357
ISBN 13 
9781861342355
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
368
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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