1st Edition

Making Welfare Work Reconstructing Welfare for the Millennium

By Frank Field Copyright 2001
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

The welfare system in the United Kingdom is broken. The number of claims has escalated and so, in consequence, have welfare expenditures. The social system does not encourage welfare recipients to become independent. Half the population of the United Kingdom lives in households drawing one of the major means-tested benefits. Research documents that means-tests paralyze self-help, discourage... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction Edition *; Introduction; 1: The New Barbarism; 2: The Winter of Our Discontent; 3: The Flawed Vision; 4: Minimum Income Levels; 95: Social Insecurity; 6: The Disintegrating Socio-Economie Landscape; 7: A Stakeholder’s Welfare

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Valerie Jenness