Bücher von Chris Grover

This is the first book to examine debates about, and the practice of, state supplementing of wages. It charts the historical development of such policies from prohibition in the 1830s and how opposition to it was overcome in the 1970s, thereby allowing the increasing supplementation of the wages of poorly paid working people.

In 2008 the Social Fund had been in operation for twenty years. This has provided an opportunity to critically reflect upon its introduction in 1988 and its operation in two decades. This study provides the reader with evidence that this is not the case by locating Social Fund loans in a lengthy history of debate.