Public attitudes to dependency and the welfare state

Emese Mayhew and Jonathan Bradshaw

This paper argues that for over 20 years there has been a disjunction between the dominant political discourse in the UK about the welfare state and public attitudes to the welfare state.
  

Public attitudes to dependency and the welfare state[1]

 Jonathan Bradshaw and Emese Mayhew[2] University of York

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...

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