Public attitudes to dependency and the welfare state[1]
Jonathan
Bradshaw and Emese
Mayhew[2]
University
of
INTRODUCTION
Concern about dependency has been a very long-term theme in social policy. The principle of less eligibility in the Poor Law; the rigours of the unemployment assistance board in the 1930s; the work tests in the Beveridge insurance and assistance schemes; the abolition of earnings related unemployment benefit, benefits for 16-18 year olds and cuts in the real level of out-of-work benefits by the Thatcher Government in the 1980s; New Labour's...