{"product_id":"transfer-state-peter-sloman-9780198813262","title":"Transfer State: The Idea of a Guaranteed Income and the Politics of Redistribution in Modern Britain","description":"The idea of a guaranteed minimum income has been central to British social policy debates for more than a century. Since the First World War, a variety of market economists, radical activists, and social reformers have emphasized the possibility of tackling poverty through direct cash transfers between the state and its citizens. As manufacturing employment has declined and wage inequality has grown since the 1970s, cash benefits and tax credits have become an important source of income for millions of working-age households, including many low-paid workers with children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe nature and purpose of these transfer payments, however, remain highly contested. Conservative and New Labour governments have used in-work benefits and conditionality requirements to 'activate' the unemployed and reinforce the incentives to take low-paid work - an approach which has reached its apogee in Universal Credit. By contrast, a growing number of campaigners have argued that the challenge of providing economic security in an age of automation would be better met by paying a Universal Basic Income to all citizens. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eTransfer State\u003c\/em\u003e provides the first detailed history of guaranteed income proposals in modern Britain, which brings together intellectual history and archival research to show how the pursuit of an integrated tax and benefit system has shaped UK public policy since 1918. The result is a major new analysis of the role of cash transfers in the British welfare state which sets Universal Credit in a historical perspective and examines the cultural and political barriers to a Universal Basic Income.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Sloman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198813260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198813262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Peter Sloman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054749118719,"sku":"9780198813262","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_137dc8f9-59fa-48a4-b11b-7c2b871bcc3c.jpg?v=1685031771","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/transfer-state-peter-sloman-9780198813262","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}