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03420aam a2200421Ii 4500 001 EA20379EC7F211EAB1F2873797128E48 003 SILO 005 20200717010022 008 190411s2019 enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780198813262 020 $a 0198813260 035 $a (OCoLC)1096294272 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d ERASA $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d YDXIT $d GUA $d SFB $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a HC79.I5 $b S56 2019 100 1 $a Sloman, Peter, $d 1986- $e author. 245 10 $a Transfer state : $b the idea of a guaranteed income and the politics of redistribution in modern Britain / Peter Sloman. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford ; $b Oxford University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a xiv, 302 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-291) and index. 520 8 $a 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. 505 0 $a Pt. I : The politics of redistribution -- Pt. II : In search of a guaranteed income -- Pt. III : Cash transfers in post-industrial Britain -- Pt. IV : Conclusion. 650 0 $a Basic income $z Great Britain. 650 0 $a Income distribution $z Great Britain. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Social policy. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Economic policy. 650 7 $a Basic income. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00948803 650 7 $a Economic policy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00902025 650 7 $a Income distribution. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00968670 650 7 $a Social policy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01122738 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 650 7 $a Einkommensverteilung $2 gnd 650 7 $a Garantiertes Mindesteinkommen $2 gnd 651 7 $a Gro©britannien $2 gnd 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20210721013438.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EA20379EC7F211EAB1F2873797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search