Add to ORKGThis article examines the record of the British Labour Party's flagship policy aimed at reducing poverty and social exclusion in one of the most unequal societies in western Europe. It seeks to show that, despite an increasingly refined official view of poverty - as a multidimensional phenomenon - and despite extensive measures involving educational and labour market reforms, new activation strategies and considerable fiscal transfers, social mobility and persistent poverty remains stubbornly resistant. The article ascribes these disappointing outcomes to the simultaneous pursuit by New Labour of macro-economic policies which promote income inequality
In its first years in office, the Labour Government set out a wide-ranging and ambitious set of poli...
My 70 in-depth interviews were funded by a British Academy small grant.Relative poverty, a concept d...
The previous Labour government pledged to abolish child poverty and introduced a range of welfare re...
When New Labour came to power in 1997, its leaders asked for it to be judged after ten years on its ...
With the publication of the Green Paper A New Contract for Welfare the government has set out its an...
The Third Way and the fight against poverty in the United Kingdom. The experience of the Blair and ...
The goal of abolishing child poverty within a generation in Britain was set out by the New Labour go...
The Labour government came to power in 1997 pledging to tackle social exclusion and to end child pov...
This thesis provides a timely retrospective of New Labour's public politics of global and domestic p...
In 1999, one in four British children lived in poverty—the third highest child poverty rate among in...
Relative poverty in the UK has risen massively since 1979 mainly because of increasing worklessness,...
This article intends to assess New Labour’s achievements on their poverty and inequality agenda afte...
The article deals with the problem of poverty and social inequality in Great Britain both now and in...
the persistence of poverty remains a major concern of policy makers. Despite this concern there has ...
Acute poverty exists in the UK, the cradle of the industrial revolution, the Welfare State and Thatc...
In its first years in office, the Labour Government set out a wide-ranging and ambitious set of poli...
My 70 in-depth interviews were funded by a British Academy small grant.Relative poverty, a concept d...
The previous Labour government pledged to abolish child poverty and introduced a range of welfare re...
When New Labour came to power in 1997, its leaders asked for it to be judged after ten years on its ...
With the publication of the Green Paper A New Contract for Welfare the government has set out its an...
The Third Way and the fight against poverty in the United Kingdom. The experience of the Blair and ...
The goal of abolishing child poverty within a generation in Britain was set out by the New Labour go...
The Labour government came to power in 1997 pledging to tackle social exclusion and to end child pov...
This thesis provides a timely retrospective of New Labour's public politics of global and domestic p...
In 1999, one in four British children lived in poverty—the third highest child poverty rate among in...
Relative poverty in the UK has risen massively since 1979 mainly because of increasing worklessness,...
This article intends to assess New Labour’s achievements on their poverty and inequality agenda afte...
The article deals with the problem of poverty and social inequality in Great Britain both now and in...
the persistence of poverty remains a major concern of policy makers. Despite this concern there has ...
Acute poverty exists in the UK, the cradle of the industrial revolution, the Welfare State and Thatc...
In its first years in office, the Labour Government set out a wide-ranging and ambitious set of poli...
My 70 in-depth interviews were funded by a British Academy small grant.Relative poverty, a concept d...
The previous Labour government pledged to abolish child poverty and introduced a range of welfare re...