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

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 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 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 185 12 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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