Titlebook: Class, Capital and Social Policy; Norman Ginsburg Textbook 1979Latest edition Norman Ginsburg 1979 labor market.poverty.social policy.soci

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Introduction: Class Power and the Welfare State,these areas it is suggested that, on the one hand, a quite specific historical and theoretical analysis is required and that, on the other hand, state policy has been directly formed by the exigencies of the continual crises of capitalist development and their political consequences. Hence we shall

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Some Basic Concepts and Assumptions,nsufficient space here either to enter into the underlying debates or to draw out many of the general implications for the analysis of social welfare. The reader may find it hard going. It may be easier to return to it after reading the rest of the book or following up some of the exegetical account

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Social Security, Class Struggle and the Reproduction of Capital, early nineteenth century. The terms poor relief and social security are generic terms, neither of which are really adequate, but we shall be concentrating here on cash payments by the parish or the state to those people variously defined as ‘in need’. Clearly such payments are a central pillar of t

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Private Housing, the State and the Working Class,t is also of essential importance to ‘capital in general’, which requires a supply of labour power housed sufficiently close to the point of production and housed adequately enough to ensure reproduction. Working-class housing conditions have been one of the most crucial material factors pushing for

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Council Housing,y the local authority under government supervision acts as a major housing developer and landlord. As Table 5.1 indicates, before the First World War there were virtually no council houses in Britain, but today about 30 per cent of the housing stock is occupied by tenants of the local authorities, t

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Social Security, Class Struggle and the Reproduction of Capital,ariety of circumstances. The growth in the level and coverage of benefits has been linked to the growth of working-class strength and organisation in the struggle towards the improvement of their living conditions. In that sense the social security system is a product of class struggle. It is unlike