The Work Connection: The Role of Social Security in British Economic Regulation

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 11
List of Illustrations......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 13
1 Introduction – Welfare to Work-Welfare: Making the Connection to Work......Page 16
Regulation theory......Page 18
Welfare to work?......Page 21
Work-welfare policies: what are they?......Page 23
Researching The Work Connection......Page 27
Structure of the book......Page 29
2 The Conservatives, Neo-Liberalism and Social Security Policy: the Development of Market Workfare......Page 34
What is workfare?......Page 37
\'Classic\' workfare: a reflection of command economies?......Page 41
Social security and the Conservatives......Page 44
The stricter benefit regime......Page 47
The in-work benefit regime......Page 50
The relationship between the stricter benefit regime and the in-work benefit regime: market workfare......Page 52
Market workfare: a neo-liberal social mode of economic regulation......Page 53
Conclusion......Page 57
\'New Labour\' and the free market......Page 59
The \'Third Way\' and the individualising of social exclusion......Page 62
\'New Labour\' and unemployment: a (lack of) motivation discourse......Page 66
The New Deals: developing a pro-active welfare system?......Page 69
Managing economic growth: the New Deals and employment......Page 75
Tax credits and the working poor: maintaining low wages?......Page 78
The national minimum wage: increasing low wages?......Page 81
Conclusion......Page 84
Reproducing labour: household production and \'the family\'......Page 87
Hayek: free markets, \'traditional moralities\' and \'the family\'......Page 89
The \'underclass\' arrives: what to do about lone mothers?......Page 91
Lone mothers and formal employment: role models and the re-regulation of public patriarchy......Page 95
Re-regulating public patriarchy (I): lone mothers, role models and the Conservatives......Page 98
Re-regulating public patriarchy (II): \'new Labour\', lone mothers and role models......Page 103
Role models, the double burden and public patriarchy......Page 106
Fratriarchy: a threat to patriarchy?......Page 109
Unemployment and social disorder: respectable fears and the regulation of neo-liberal accumulation......Page 111
Responding to unrest: pacifying young people through work......Page 115
The 1990s: \'barbarians\', lone mothers and the \'underclass\'......Page 119
Market workfare and the Conservatives: civilising the \'barbarians\'......Page 123
\'New Labour\' and the lads\' New Deal......Page 127
Conclusion......Page 133
6 Speenhamland: In-Work Relief at the Dawn of Modernity......Page 135
Loaves and working men......Page 137
Speenhamland, political economy and the capture of the \'natural\'......Page 140
1834: political economy and the Poor Law Commission Report......Page 143
Implementing what is natural......Page 148
A spectre haunts in-work benefits: Family Income Supplement......Page 149
\'New Labour\' and the national minimum wage......Page 157
Conclusion......Page 160
7 Family Allowances to Child Benefit: Keynesian In-Work Relief Delivered by Beveridge?......Page 163
Family allowances......Page 164
Assumption A......Page 165
Interest groups......Page 170
The movement for family allowances......Page 172
Keynes and the war......Page 177
But when?......Page 180
Servicemen\'s dependants\' allowance......Page 181
A scheme is outlined......Page 182
\'The baby is a very little one\' – the Family Allowances Act, 1945......Page 183
Ending child poverty in the millennium – a role for children allowances?......Page 187
Regulating accumulation......Page 190
Controlling incomes in an age of uncertainty......Page 194
Pragmatism, rationalism and the regulation of The Work Connection......Page 199
But does it work?......Page 200
Back to the future? Income maintenance in the twenty-first century......Page 204
Notes......Page 207
References and index of author citation......Page 219
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