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Whiteside, Noel (2022) Beveridge on idleness. Social Policy & Administration, 56 (2). pp. 245-257. doi:10.1111/spol.12740 ISSN 0144-5596.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12740
Abstract
Beveridge's wartime proposals to eliminate idleness relied on the precepts of Keynesian economics and substantial extensions in the powers of central government to regulate industry and labour. Using convention theory, this paper demonstrates how these stipulations proved politically untenable. With the disappearance of full employment in the 1980s, the labour market problems Beveridge encountered in his youth have re-emerged accompanied by old problems of working poverty. Established forms of labour market analysis are obsolescent and employment rights disappear. The paper suggests a more decentralized and variable analysis of relations between work and idleness may offer a way forward.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge, Baron, 1879-1963, Unemployment -- Great Britain, Social security -- Great Britain, Public welfare -- Great Britain, Great Britain -- Social conditions, Great Britain -- Social policy, Laziness -- Social aspects, Laziness -- Economic aspects | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Social Policy & Administration | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0144-5596 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | March 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 56 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 245-257 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/spol.12740 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 January 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 31 January 2022 |
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