Social Security Law in Context

by Neville S. Harris

The social security system of Great Britain has reached a crossroads, following the election of a Labour Government promising a 'New Age' of welfare and seemingly prepared to 'think the unthinkable' on welfare reform, at a time when public expenditure on welfare benefits has reached nearly ?100 billion per annum. In 1985 the Conservative's Green Paper on social security reform announced that the benefits system had 'lost its way'. Attempts were made...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198763085
• ISBN13: 9780198763086
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 604 Pages
• Weight: 2.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.5"