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Thatche and Unemployment
Thatche and Unemployment
Thatche and Unemployment
Unemployment
A ‘worthy’ unemployed?
Not new that unemployed viewed with suspicion in the 20s Conservative
politicians wanted unemployed to prove that they were ‘genuinely seeking
work’ as a condition for welfare benefits.
Benefit fraud at its height in the 30s, in the mid-70s one conservative MP
accused one-fifth of welfare recipients of being cheats.
Reactions to the welfare state in crisis:
Budget control New Public Management
Services Private suppliers, free choice
Workfare strategies from passive to active labour market policies the
carrot/stick
Less state more individual and market
Source:
Rieger, Bernhard. “Making Britain Work Again: Unemployment and the Remaking of
British Social Policy in the Eighties*.” The English Historical Review 133, no. 562
(June 2, 2018): 634–66.