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The authors use regulation to explain the antecedents to contemporary 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 they have become the preferred instrument of intervention in the labour market for setting wages. The authors discuss the ways in which these measures - the new deals for lone parents and young people and the working family tax credit - address issues of child poverty and the adequacy of incomes, and how far they are disciplining devices to encourage a new moral order, supportive of family life.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Work Connection
• Author: Chris Grover, John Stewart
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 233
• EAN: 9780333754436
• ISBN: 0333754433
• ID: 04598962
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 495 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. December 2001

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