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

by Chris Grover Dr, John Stewart, C Grover, et al.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349413305
• ISBN13: 9781349413300
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"