Transfer state : the idea of a guaranteed income and the politics of redistribution in modern Britain /
Peter Sloman.
- xiv, 302 pages : illustrations
I. The politics of redistribution -- Redistributive market liberalism and its critics -- II. In search of a guaranteed income -- Social dividends and social contracts, 1918-1955 -- Negative income tax comes to Britain, 1955-1970 -- 'The pragmatist's solution to poverty' : the Heath government's tax credit scheme, 1970-1974 -- III. Cash transfers in post-industrial Britain -- Redistribution in a cold climate : the politics of guaranteed income in the late 1970s and 1980s -- New Labour's tax credits, 1997-2010 -- A crisis of the transfer state? Distributional politics since the 2008 financial crisis -- The return of universal basic income -- IV. Conclusion -- What kind of transfer state?
9780198813262
GBB9F8186 bnb
019545263 Uk
Basic income--Great Britain. Income distribution--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Social policy. Great Britain--Economic policy.