Social Policy by Region, Labor Policies, Welfare - Service & Policies

Learning from America : Policy Transfer and the Development of the British Workfare State

Name: Learning from America : Policy Transfer and the Development of the British Workfare State
Author: David P. Dolowitz
ISBN: 9781898723738

by David P. Dolowitz

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Overview

During the 1980s and 1990s the UK's Conservative administration implemented a number of changes to the unemployment benefit system. Many of these changes associated an individual's receipt of welfare benefits to participation in a government employment or training scheme. The changes culminated in the implementation of Project Work, which required the long-term unemployed to participate in a government-sponsored workfare programme to retain their entitlement to benefits. While important in their own right, these policy changes have a greater political significance in that most originate from the American welfare-to-work system initiated by the Reagan administration during the 1980s.

This book demonstrates how and why the Thatcher Government was influenced by America in its development of UK employment policy, and identifies the key policies, programmes and institutions transferred by the Conservative administration during the development of the British welfare-to-work and workfare systems.

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This book demonstrates how and why the Thatcher Government was influenced by the US in its development of UK employment policy, and identifies the key policies, programmes and institutions transferred by the Conservative administration during the development of the British welfare-to-work and workfare systems.

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Demonstrates how and why the Thatcher government was influenced by the Reagan administration's policies in its development of UK employment policy during the 1980s and 1990s, in particular, the tying of an individual's receipt of welfare benefits to participation in a government employment or training program. These policy changes in the UK were important in their own right, but they acquire even greater significance when studied in the context of how policy transfer works. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.