Social Security and Wage Poverty

Social Security and Wage Poverty

Historical and Policy Aspects of Supplementing Wages in Britian and Beyond

Grover, Chris

Palgrave Macmillan

03/2016

291

Dura

Inglês

9781137293961

15 a 20 dias

5797

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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 the 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 poverty
9. 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
12. Conclusion
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Capitalism;capital accumulation;child poverty;employment;gender roles;in-work poverty;living wage;minimum wage;need;patriarchy;politics;political economy;poor relief;social security;state;unemployment;wage poverty;wage supplement;wage subsidy;wage work