The Politics of Unemployment Policy in Britain: Class Struggle, Labour Market Restructuring and Welfare Reform - Paperback
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The Politics of Unemployment Policy in Britain: Class Struggle, Labour Market Restructuring and Welfare Reform - Paperback
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by Jay Wiggan (Author)
This book provides an account of the evolution of social security and employment policy and governance in Britain between 1973 and 2023. It explains how this remaking of policy and governance shaped, and was shaped by, the transformation of the labour market and power of claimants and workers.
Advancing a class-centred explanation, the text situates contemporary working age active labour market policy as the contingent outcome of a long struggle over curtailment of labour autonomy and the challenges arising from policy 'success' for securing social cohesion, state legitimacy and better economic conditions for growth.
Author Biography
Jay Wiggan is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.
Number of Pages: 288
Dimensions: 0.61 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN
Publication Date: January 01, 2026
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