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

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

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Business GeneralSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1349413305
ISBN13: 9781349413300
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 1 2002
Pages: 233
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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