Social Security and Wage Poverty: Historical and Policy Aspects of Supplementing Wages in Britian and...

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Chris Grover

Social Security and Wage Poverty

Historical and Policy Aspects of Supplementing Wages in Britian and Beyond

Chris Grover

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English

Palgrave Macmillan
14 March 2016

Poverty & unemployment; Welfare & benefit systems; Welfare economics

This is the first book to examine debates about, and the practice of, state supplementing of wages. It charts the historical development of such policies from prohibition in the 1830s and how opposition to it was overcome in the 1970s, thereby allowing the increasing supplementation of the wages of poorly paid working people.

By: Chris Grover
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 5.797kg
ISBN: 9781137293961
ISBN 10: 1137293969
Pages: 291
Publication Date: 14 March 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Chris Grover is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Lancaster University, UK. Interested in political economy, he has written extensively on relationships between wage work and social security policy. His recent books include an edited collection (with Linda Piggott) on disability benefits and work, and the loaning of social security payments.

Reviews for Social Security and Wage Poverty: Historical and Policy Aspects of Supplementing Wages in Britian and Beyond

This is an incisive and critical examination of the supplementation of low wages through tax credits and benefits for 'the working poor'. It is a topic which has always been at the heart of social policy in all capitalist economies, not least with the explosion of low paid employment in Britain in the last two decades. Chris Grover analyses the evident contradictions with enormous clarity and skill, using lots of historical detail, including some original local history and comparisons with New Zealand and the United States. It is essential reading for anyone interested in progressive reform of the welfare state. - Norman Ginsburg, London Metropolitan University, UK