The future of social security policy
women, work and citizens' basic income
- ISBN: 9780415344364
- Editorial: Routledge
- Fecha de la edición: 2005
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Colección: Routledge frontiers of political economy
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 269
- Idiomas: Inglés
The purpose of the book is to critically assess current welfare reform agendas with specific reference to the world of paid work and social security policy from a feminist economics perspective. It has four main themes: * To explore the concept of social security and analysing the role of the state in the provision of income maintenance within an economics framework * To examine the reform agenda for social security policy in the UK with specific reference to the citizens basic income proposal * To critically assess the role social security policy plays in the promotion of gender equality * To reconceptualize the citizens basic income proposal from a feminist economics perspective