The Work Connection

The Role of Social Security in British Economic Regulation

By: Chris Dr Grover, John Stewart

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Hardcover | 20 March 2002 | Edition Number 1

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The authors use regulation to explain the antecedents to current 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 today 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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Welfare & Benefit Systems

Acknowledgements	p. x
List of Illustrations	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction--Welfare to Work-Welfare: Making the Connection to Work	p. 1
Regulation theory	p. 3
Welfare to work?	p. 6
Work-welfare policies: what are they?	p. 8
Researching The Work Connection	p. 12
Structure of the book	p. 14
The Conservatives, Neo-Liberalism and Social Security Policy: the Development of Market Workfare	p. 19
What is workfare?	p. 22
'Classic' workfare: a reflection of command economies?	p. 26
Social security and the Conservatives	p. 29
The stricter benefit regime	p. 32
The in-work benefit regime	p. 35
The relationship between the stricter benefit regime and the in-work benefit regime: market workfare	p. 37
Market workfare: a neo-liberal social mode of economic regulation	p. 38
Conclusion	p. 42
'New Labour' and the Modernisation of Welfare: Extending Market Workfare	p. 44
'New Labour' and the free market	p. 44
The 'Third Way' and the individualising of social exclusion	p. 47
'New Labour' and unemployment: a (lack of) motivation discourse	p. 51
The New Deals: developing a pro-active welfare system?	p. 54
Managing economic growth: the New Deals and employment	p. 60
Tax credits and the working poor: maintaining low wages?	p. 63
The national minimum wage: increasing low wages?	p. 66
Conclusion	p. 69
Role Models and Traditional Moralities: the Development of In-Work Relief for Lone Mothers	p. 72
Reproducing labour: household production and 'the family'	p. 72
Hayek: free markets, 'traditional moralities' and 'the family'	p. 74
The 'underclass' arrives: what to do about lone mothers?	p. 76
Lone mothers and formal employment: role models and the re-regulation of public patriarchy	p. 80
Re-regulating public patriarchy (I): lone mothers, role models and the Conservatives	p. 83
Re-regulating public patriarchy (II): 'new Labour', lone mothers and role models	p. 88
Role models, the double burden and public patriarchy	p. 91
Taming 'Barbarians': Young Men, the Patriarchal Family and In-Work Relief	p. 94
Fratriarchy: a threat to patriarchy?	p. 94
Unemployment and social disorder: respectable fears and the regulation of neo-liberal accumulation	p. 96
Responding to unrest: pacifying young people through work	p. 100
The 1990s: 'barbarians', lone mothers and the 'underclass'	p. 104
Market workfare and the Conservatives: civilising the 'barbarians'	p. 108
'New Labour' and the lads' New Deal	p. 112
Conclusion	p. 118
Speenhamland: In-Work Relief at the Dawn of Modernity	p. 120
Loaves and working men	p. 122
Speenhamland, political economy and the capture of the 'natural'	p. 125
1834: political economy and the Poor Law Commission Report	p. 128
Implementing what is natural	p. 133
A spectre haunts in-work benefits: Family Income Supplement	p. 134
'New Labour' and the national minimum wage	p. 142
Conclusion	p. 145
Family Allowances to Child Benefit: Keynesian In-Work Relief Delivered by Beveridge?	p. 148
Family allowances	p. 149
Assumption A	p. 150
Interest groups	p. 155
The movement for family allowances	p. 157
Keynes and the war	p. 162
But when?	p. 165
Servicemen's dependants' allowance	p. 166
A scheme is outlined	p. 167
'The baby is a very little one'--the Family Allowances Act, 1945	p. 168
Ending child poverty in the millennium--a role for children allowances?	p. 172
Conclusion: Regulation and Income Maintenance into the Twenty-First Century	p. 175
Regulating accumulation	p. 175
Controlling incomes in an age of uncertainty	p. 179
Pragmatism, rationalism and the regulation of The Work Connection	p. 184
But does it work?	p. 185
Back to the future? Income maintenance in the twenty-first century	p. 189
Notes	p. 192
References and index of author citation	p. 204
Index	p. 221
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