Learning from America: Policy Transfer and the Development of the British Workfare State

by David Dolowitz

This book demonstrates how and why the Thatcher Government was influenced by the US in its development of UK employment policy, and identifies the key policies, programmes and institutions transferred by the Conservative administration during the development of the British welfare-to-work and workfare systems.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1898723737
• ISBN13: 9781898723738
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
• Length: 224 Pages