Social Security and wage poverty : historical and policy aspects of supplementing wages in Britain and beyond /

Social Security and Wage Poverty is the first book to comprehensively examine debates about, and the practice of, the state supplementing wages. Chris Grover charts the historical development of such policies from prohibition in the 1830s and how opposition to it was overcome in the 1970s, thereby a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grover, Chris, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Temas:
Social security > Great Britain > History.
Minimum wage > Great Britain > History.
Public welfare > Great Britain > History.
Family allowances > Great Britain > History.
Income maintenance programs > Great Britain > History.
Sécurité sociale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Salaires minimums > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Aide sociale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Allocations familiales > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Political economy.
Central government policies.
Development studies.
Sociology: work & labour.
Gender studies, gender groups.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Family allowances
Income maintenance programs
Minimum wage
Public welfare
Social security
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover ; Half-Title ; Title ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Wage Supplements and the New Poor Law; 3 Wage Supplements and Poor Relief in the 1920s: Norfolk's Agricultural Labourers; 4 Wage Supplements and Public Assistance in the 1930s: Lancashire's Cotton Weavers; 5 Family Allowance, the Rediscovery of Poverty and Rejection of Means-tested Wage Supplements; 6 Family Income Supplement: Reintroducing Means-tested Wage Supplements; 7 Family Credit, Wage Suppression and the 'Think Tank'
  • 8 Tax Credits, Wage Worklessness and Child Poverty9 Universal Credit: Wage Supplements and Mini-jobs; 10 Minimum and Living Wages: Alternatives to Wage Supplements?; 11 International Experiences of Wage Supplements: New Zealand and the USA 185 12 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.

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