| 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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