Social Security and Wage Poverty

Social Security and Wage Poverty

Historical and Policy Aspects of Supplementing Wages in Britian and Beyond

Palgrave Macmillan

02/2020

291

Mole

Inglês

9781349671243

15 a 20 dias

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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