Social security and wage poverty : historical and policy aspects of supplementing wages in Britain and beyond / Chris Grover, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, Lancaster University, UK.
"This is the first book to examine debates about, and the practice of, state supplementing of wages. It 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 wag...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
| Summary: | "This is the first book to examine debates about, and the practice of, state supplementing of wages. It 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."--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1137293977 9781137293978 |