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Abstract
"The welfare system in the United Kingdom is broken. The number of claims has escalated and so, in consequence, have welfare expenditures. The social system does not encourage welfare recipients to become independent. Half the population of the United Kingdom lives in households drawing one of the major means-tested benefits. Research documents that means-tests paralyze self-help, discourage self--im-provement, and tax honesty while at the same time rewarding claimants for being either inactive or -deceitful. In Making Welfare Work, Frank Field challenges the current political orthodoxy, particularly its emphasis on the role of legislation alone in bringing about social improvement in a welfare state. Field argues that the impact legislation has on personal character is pivotal to human advance in a welfare state. Welfare reconstruction needs to address and channel the differing roles of self-interest, self-improvement, and altruism, which are among the great driving forces in human character. A successful welfare state must reinforce these important forces which influence our nature because to create an imbalance between these three motive forces will always undermine welfare's objectives. Field discusses in detail aspects of modern British society in dire need of change. These include the drug trade, benefit traps, permanent adolescence, the rise of part-time work, inequality in incomes, excluding the disabled, single parents, and the very elderly, for example. This clearly delineated, well-researched blueprint for success will be important reading for politicians and policymakers in all industrialized nations. Its author is well-positioned to revise and review the welfare policies of democratic -societies."--Provided by publisher.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables and Diagrams -- Acknowledgements -- About the Contributors -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- The Fivefold Agenda -- The Causes of Welfare Expenditure -- Welfare and Behaviour -- Contract Welfare -- Universalism: The Goal -- Welfare and Democracy -- Joined Up Policy -- How to Pay for the Future -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The New Barbarism -- Ghetto Politics -- The Disinherited Male -- Destroying Self-Respect and Self-Improvement -- The New Male -- Permanent Adolescence -- Cutting the Supply Routes -- The Drug Trade -- Inner City Apartheid -- Outside the Ghetto -- Policy Conclusions -- Chapter 2: The Winter of Our Discontent -- Voters' Dismay -- The Poor's Response -- Politicians' Dismay -- Policy Conclusions -- Chapter 3: The Flawed Vision -- Welfare's Fault-Lines -- Poverty Studies -- Beveridge's Second Coming -- First Thoughts -- Excluding Women -- Excluding the Disabled -- Renting a Failure -- Extending the Fault-Lines -- Government Cuts -- The White Paper Chase -- Yet More Cuts -- Policy Conclusions -- Chapter 4: Minimum Income Levels -- A National Minimum -- Charles Booth -- Seebohm Rowntree -- The Poverty Line's Political Impact -- From Theory to Practice -- The Beveridge Report -- Policy Conclusions -- Chapter 5: Social Insecurity -- Who Is Getting What? -- Single Parents and Poverty -- Poverty's Younger Face -- Poor Law Revival -- Half the Population on Means Tests -- Cheating the Taxpayer -- Policy Conclusions -- Chapter 6: The Disintegrating Socio-Economic Landscape -- Today's Uncertain World -- Revolution in the Job Market -- The Rise and Rise of Part-Time Work -- The Disinherited Male -- The Pay Revolution -- Inequality in Incomes -- The Impact of Tax Changes -- The Rise and Rise of Single Parents -- Fraud
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