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Making welfare work : reconstructing welfare for the millennium / Frank Field.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Field, Frank, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare--Great Britain.
- Public welfare.
- Great Britain.
- Welfare state.
- Great Britain--Social policy--1979-.
- Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction, [2001]
- Contents:
- The Fivefold Agenda 2
- The Causes of Welfare Expenditure 2
- Welfare and Behaviour 5
- Contract Welfare 7
- Universalism: The Goal 9
- Welfare and Democracy 11
- Joined Up Policy 14
- How to Pay for the Future 15
- 1 The New Barbarism 25
- Ghetto Politics 25
- The Disinherited Male 27
- Destroying Self-Respect and Self-Improvement 28
- The New Male 29
- Permanent Adolescence 32
- Cutting the Supply Routes 34
- The Drug Trade 35
- Inner City Apartheid 36
- Outside the Ghetto 37
- 2 The Winter of Our Discontent 41
- Voters' Dismay 41
- The Poor's Response 47
- Politicians' Dismay 54
- 3 The Flawed Vision 61
- Welfare's Fault-Lines 61
- Poverty Studies 62
- Beveridge's Second Coming 62
- First Thoughts 65
- Excluding Women 65
- Excluding the Disabled 67
- Renting a Failure 68
- Extending the Fault-Lines 69
- Government Cuts 70
- The White Paper Chase 71
- Yet More Cuts 72
- 4 Minimum Income Levels 77
- A National Minimum 77
- Charles Booth 78
- Seebohm Rowntree 80
- The Poverty Line's Political Impact 84
- From Theory to Practice 85
- The Beveridge Report 87
- 5 Social Insecurity 95
- Who Is Getting What? 96
- Single Parents and Poverty 98
- Poverty's Younger Face 100
- Poor Law Revival 101
- Half the Population on Means Tests 104
- Cheating the Taxpayer 107
- 6 The Disintegrating Socio-Economic Landscape 113
- Today's Uncertain World 113
- Revolution in the Job Market 114
- The Rise and Rise of Part-Time Work 116
- The Disinherited Male 117
- The Pay Revolution 120
- Inequality in Incomes 122
- The Impact of Tax Changes 123
- The Rise and Rise of Single Parents 124
- Fraud 127
- The Very Elderly 129
- 7 A Stakeholder's Welfare 135
- Two Destructive Forces 135
- Advent of a Social Philosophy 136
- The Pivotal Role of Human Character 138
- Reasserting a Public Ideology 142
- The Centrality of Self-Interest 143
- The Pace of Change 144
- The Strategy of the Reform Programme 145
- The Key Political Commitments 147
- The Politics of Reform 149
- Stakeholder's Insurance Scheme Framework 152
- Building Up a New System 153
- A Policy of Inclusion 154
- Insurance Cover Since 1948 158
- A Broken-Backed Insurance Scheme 170
- Transition to a Stakeholder's Scheme 173
- Earnings Conditions 174
- Qualifying Time 175
- Contributory Year 177
- System of Credits 177
- Graduated Benefits 178
- The Scheme's Finances 179
- Care Pensions 182
- The Stakeholder Corporation 187
- Private Pension Stakeholding 188
- Alternative Reforms 189
- Stakeholder's Private Pension Corporation 190
- Rent Payments 195
- A Proactive Benefits Agency 197
- Beating Fraud 201
- New Demands 202
- Taking the Debate to the Country 202.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0765806266
- OCLC:
- 43095809
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