The Work Connection: The Role of Social Security in British Economic Regulation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349413300)

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.

Author: J. Stewart,Chris Grover
ISBN-10: 1349413305
ISBN-13: 9781349413300
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2002
Pages: 233
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d