How to pay for the future : building a stakeholders welfare
- London : Istitute of Community Studies, [199-]
- 126 p.
How to pay for the future: building a stakeholder's welfare Contents Index of tables Section I: The high politics of welfare Section II: The centre cannot hold Key political assumptions 1. A pro-poor campaign 2. Expenditure growth 3. The undermining of good government 4. More or less 5. Tory means-test strategy 6. Failure of means-test strategy 7. Means-tests and the underclass Labours's opportunity Section III: reconstructing welfare Underlying assumptions 1. A balanced view of human nature 2. Greater contributor control 3. The role of comprehensiveness 4. Taking account of key socio-economic changes 5. Social autonomy and taxation 6 - Social autonomy taxation and welfare reform 7 - Role of trust 8 - Decline of state power 9. Belief in social progress 10. New forms of social cohesion Section IV: making a new welfare settlement Mechanics of change 1. A stakeholders' pension scheme Making pensions adequate Boyd carpenter reforms Crossman reforms Joseph reforms Castle reforms The lessons Pensions deficit Support for compulsion Against extending compulsion Extending compulsion The abolition os SERPS Functions of the satkeholder's pensions corporation Savings, not taxation Friendly societies Making compulsion work Cost of new pension proposals A programme for the left 2. Stakeholder's insurance scheme Care pension insurance Unemployment insurance Organising the corporations 3. A proactive income support agency Unemployed Single mothers Raising literacy skills Fully employed schools Section V: Back to the high politics of welfare Section VI: financial summary Summary Financial the new benefit arrangements Section VII: Summary or reforms References