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Social Security and Wage Poverty
Chris Grover
其他書名
Historical and Policy Aspects of Supplementing Wages in Britian and Beyond
出版
Springer
, 2016-04-30
主題
Social Science / Gender Studies
Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy
Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy
Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Women's Studies
Political Science / Public Policy / General
Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries
Business & Economics / Labor / General
ISBN
1137293977
9781137293978
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gK3tCwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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 supplements, Grover also deals with gendered assumptions about the role of women in wage work and 'the family', which have framed the use and critique of wage supplements. He focuses on Britain, but also examines wage supplements in New Zealand and the USA.