The Work Connection: The Role of Social Security in British Economic Regulation
J. Stewart, Kenneth A. Loparo, "The Work Connection: The Role of Social Security in British Economic Regulation"
English | 2001 | pages: 248 | ISBN: 0333754433, 1349413305 | PDF | 1,0 mb
English | 2001 | pages: 248 | ISBN: 0333754433, 1349413305 | PDF | 1,0 mb
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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