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The latest issue of 'Benefits: The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice'
(Volume 16, number 2) is now available. Please see the table of contents
below.
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In this issue:
EDITORIAL
The long and winding road: Labour governments, poverty and social justice
from 1945 to the present day
Robert M. Page
ARTICLES
Towards a 'red' and pleasant land? The attack on poverty and the pursuit of
social justice in the Attlee era, 1945-51
Robert M. Page
The 1964 Labour government, poverty and social justice
Jim Tomlinson
Poverty and inequality: Labour in the 1970s
David Piachaud
Poverty, social justice and the Labour government, 1997-2007
Stephen Driver
POLICY REVIEW
Transformational government
Terry Patterson
IN PRACTICE
Financial inclusion - don't go banking on it!
Steve Quinn
RESEARCH ROUND-UP
Department for Work and Pensions
Mothers’ participation in paid work: the role of ‘mini-jobs'; Client
Support Agency: client insight research 2007; Public attitudes to child
poverty
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
The impact of benefit and tax uprating on incomes and poverty
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Racing away? Income inequality and the evolution of high incomes
GOVERNMENT ROUND-UP
Fraud in the benefits system; Energy poverty; Financial inclusion; Poverty
in Scotland; Families and children; Employment
BOOK REVIEWS
A route out of poverty? Disabled people, work and welfare reform -
Gabrielle Preston (ed) (2006)
Gill Westcott
Pensions: Policy and politics in the twenty-first century - Michael Hill
(2007)
Marcus Whiting
Age shock: How finance is failing us - Robin Blackburn (2006)
Marcus Whiting
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