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Back to the Future: Statutory Sick Pay, Citizenship and Social Class*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Peter Taylor-Gooby  and
Susan Lakeman
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Abstract

It is commonly argued that democratic-welfare capitalist societies face a continual tension between market individualist and need-oriented welfare values. If this is so, the attempt by the British Conservative Government of the 1980s to administer a brisk restorative to the welfare state with a purging dose of market principles seems likely to generate a tenacious opposition. This paper uses the transfer of sick pay responsibilities to employers through the 1983 Statutory Sick Pay scheme as a case study, to examine with what success market-based ideologies have encroached on people's conceptions of welfare citizenship.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , January 1988 , pp. 23 - 39
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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