Banishing dark divisive clouds: welfare and the Conservative government 1979-1983

For more details see Hastings, S. and Levie, H. (eds) Privatisation ( Spokesman, 1983) and Labour Research Department Privatisation Who Loses- Who Profits, 1983

Unemployment Unit Bulletin No.5, November 1982

Quoted in Ewing, K. Industrial Action: Another Step in the Right Direction. The Industrial Law Journal, Vol 11, No.4, December 1982

See Pond, C. and Winyard, S. The Case for a National Minimum Wage, Low Pay Unit , 1983

Walker, A. Winyard, S. and Pond, C. Conservative Economic Policies : the Social Consequences in Bull, D. and Wilding, P. (eds) Thatcherism and the Poor Child Poverty Action Group , 1983

This aspect of Tory policy is unique in being delivered through an organ incorporating trade union interests. This is because thegovernment needs to have shopfloor cooperation for work experience, and the trade unions -in a situation of mass unemployment, falling apprenticeships and removal of Industrial Training Boards — need to retain some control of training content and maintain links with the young.

For more details see Fairley, J. The Great Training Robbery, Marxism Today, November, 1982; various articles in the first two volumes of Critical Social Policy; and The Tories Poisoned Apple, ILP, 1983

Day, L. and Pond, C. The Political Economy of Taxation in Socialist Eronomic Review 1982, Merlin Press 1982 See also Pond, C. Taxation: a political liability, Marxism Today, January 1983

Treasury calculations. House of Commons Hansard, 30 March 1983, Vol. 40 Col. 180-186

Bisset, L. and Byrne, D. Taxing Credibility, Low Pay Unit, 1983

Low Pay Unit, Finance Bill Briefing, 1983

Ibid

Hansard, op cit

Day, L. and Pond, C. op cit

Labour Party, Economic Review, March 1983, issue No. 19

Child Poverty Action Group et al, Axe Keeps Falling on Social Security, December 1982

Joe Sim is a researcher for the GLC Policy Committee. The views expressed are his alone and not those of the GLC, its Police Committee or the Police Committee Support Unit

Statement by William Whitelaw at the Conservative Party Press Conference 24 April 1979, GE 677/79

Cited in The Howard Journal, Volume 19, 1980, p.52

The Times, 3 September 1982

Hansard, 19 November 1982, col. 318

Report of the Work of the Police Authority for Northern Ireland, 1970-1981, p.43

Report of the Work of the Prison Department, England and Wales, Cmnd. 8543, Appendix No.2, 1981

The Howard Journal, Volume 19, 1980 , p.127

Hansard, 16 November 1982, col.89

State Research , Review of Security and the State, Julian Friedmann, 1980, p.160

The Times, 6 April 1983

Policing London, No.6, February/March 1983, p.2

Christian, L. 'The Police Bill' Marxism Today, May 1983, p.7

Ibid

State Research Vol. 3, No.19, 1980, p.145

The Guardian, 22 April 1983

Motion to the annual general meeting of the Scottish Council for Civil Liberties, 14 May 1983

State Research, Vol.5, No.28, 1982

State Research, Vol.5, No.31, 1982, p.164-5

The Observer, 27 June, 4 July, 11 July, 18 July, 19 September 1982

Sim, J. and Thomas, P. The PTA: Normalising the Politics of Repression Journal of Law and Society, Summer 1983

Cited in The Howard Journal, Volume 19, 1980, p.53

The Howard Journal, Volume 22, 1983, pp.54-5

Hansard, 12 April 1983, col.370

Gordon, P. White Law: Racism in the Police, Courts and Prisons, Pluto Press, 1983, p.33

For more details see Murie, A. Housing: a thoroughly residual policy, in Bull, D. and Wilding P. (eds), op cit, 1983

For more details see Maynard, A. Privatising the National Health Service, Poverty, No.54, April 1983; and C. Oldfield The NHS in Hastings, S. and Levie, H. (eds), op cit, 1983

For an elaboration see Glennester , H. Wide of the Mark on Education, Poverty, No.54, op cit

See Wilson, E. Women the `Community' and the 'Family' in Walker, A. (ed) Community Care: the Family, the State and Social Policy, Blackwell & Robertson, 1982 for an extended discussion of t his theme

See Pilling, S. The Mental Health (Amendment) Act 1982: Reform or Comestics, Critical Social Policy, No. 7, Summer 1983

See Clarke, J. Social Democratic Delinquents and Fabian Families in National Deviancy Conference (eds), Permissiveness and Control: the Fate of Sixteen Legislation , MacMillan, 1980

Wicks, M. Urban Deprivation in Bosanquet, M. (ed) Labour and Equality, Heinem ann , 1980, p.278

For an elaboration of this argument see Walker, A. Why we Need a Social Strategy, Marxism Today, September 1982, and Gardiner, J. and Smith, S. Feminism and the Alternative Economic Strategy in Currie, D. and Sawyer, M. (eds) Socialist Economic Review 1982

See Lee, P. Welfare State: The Second Front Opens, Marxism Today, May 1983, for a discussion of this

Home Affairs Committee Stn Report HC901

New Society, 24 September 1981

Runnymede Trust Bulletin, October 1982

The Guardian, 2 November 1982

Sunday Telegraph, 17 October 1982

Hansard, 28 January 1982, Runnymede Trust Bulletin, March 1982

The Guardian, 11 February 1983

The Guardian, 12 May 1983

Runnymede Trust Bulletin, op cit, 1982

Runnymede Trust Bulletin, op cit, August 1982 and The Observer, I August 1982

The Guardian, 13 August 1982

Runnymede Trust Bulletin, op cit, October 1982

Sheffield Morning Telegraph

New Society, 31 March 1983, and Sim, J. Scarman: The Police Counter-Attack, in Eve, M. and Munson, D. (eds) The Socialist Register, 1982

Runnymede Trust Bulletin, op cit, July 1982

The Times, 16 November 1982

Brixton Disorders 10-12 April 1981, Cmnd 8427

The Guardian, 12 November 1982

The Times, 6 September 1982

Runnymede Trust Bulletin, op cit, April 1981

The Sunday Times, 1 May 1983

The Daily Telegraph, 1 February 1983

The Economist, 23 April 1983

The Times Law Report, 28 June 1982

Runnymede Trust Bulletin, op cit, November 1981

See Gamble, A. The Decline of the Conservative Party, Marxism Today, November 1979

See Golding, P. Rethinking Common Sense about Social Policy , in Bull, D. and Wilding, P. (eds) Thatcherism and the Poor, CPAG, 1983 p.7

Offe, C. Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State, Critical Social Policy, Vol.2, No.2, p. 11

ibib, p.11

See for example Poverty, No.54, April 1983; Land, H. Family Fables New Socialist, No.11, May/June 1983; Carlin, N. In Sickness and in Health, Socialist Review, April 1983; Wicks, M. Enter Right: the Family Patrol Group, New Society, 24 February 1983; Young, H. and Jones, M. (eds) Come the Revolution..., The Sunday Times, 20 February 1983; Lee, P. Welfare State: the Second Front Opens, Marxism Today, May 1983; Lister, R. and Wilding, P. The Verdict on Thatcherism in Bull, D. and Wilding, P. (eds) op cit, 1983

See footnote 80-particularly articles by Lee and Land

Wicks, M. Back to the Poor Law, New Socialist, July/August 1983

See Piachaud, D. Welfare and Social Values, New Society, 2 June 1982

See Bosanquet, N. After the New Right (Heinemann , 1983) Chapter 2