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Transfer State - The Idea of a Guaranteed Income and the Politics of Redistribution in Modern Britain (Hardcover)
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Transfer State - The Idea of a Guaranteed Income and the Politics of Redistribution in Modern Britain (Hardcover)
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The idea of a guaranteed minimum income has been central to British
social policy debates for more than a century. Since the First
World War, a variety of market economists, radical activists, and
social reformers have emphasized the possibility of tackling
poverty through direct cash transfers between the state and its
citizens. As manufacturing employment has declined and wage
inequality has grown since the 1970s, cash benefits and tax credits
have become an important source of income for millions of
working-age households, including many low-paid workers with
children. The nature and purpose of these transfer payments,
however, remain highly contested. Conservative and New Labour
governments have used in-work benefits and conditionality
requirements to 'activate' the unemployed and reinforce the
incentives to take low-paid work - an approach which has reached
its apogee in Universal Credit. By contrast, a growing number of
campaigners have argued that the challenge of providing economic
security in an age of automation would be better met by paying a
Universal Basic Income to all citizens. Transfer State provides the
first detailed history of guaranteed income proposals in modern
Britain, which brings together intellectual history and archival
research to show how the pursuit of an integrated tax and benefit
system has shaped UK public policy since 1918. The result is a
major new analysis of the role of cash transfers in the British
welfare state which sets Universal Credit in a historical
perspective and examines the cultural and political barriers to a
Universal Basic Income.
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