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Chris Grover

Social Security and Wage Poverty

Historical and Policy Aspects of Supplementing Wages in Britian and Beyond

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Social Security and Wage Poverty is the first book to comprehensively examine debates about, and the practice of, the state supplementing wages. Chris Grover charts the historical development of such policies from prohibition in the 1830s and how opposition to it was overcome in the 1970s, thereby allowing the increasing supplementation of the wages of poorly paid working people. He draws upon original archival research to show that over time wage supplements have been seen as both deeply problematic for, and of great benefit to, the economy, and to the moral and social life of wage workers. In analyzing the political economy of wage suppleme… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-349-67124-3
  • EAN: 9781349671243
  • Produktnummer: 29587564
  • Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 291 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D0.0 cm 463 g
  • Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
  • Abbildungen: XII, 291 p.
  • Gewicht: 463
  • Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor


Chris Grover is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Lancaster University, UK. Interested in political economy, he has written extensively on relationships between wage work and social security policy. His recent books include an edited collection (with Linda Piggott) on disability benefits and work, and the loaning of social security payments.

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