The Fowler reviews: social policy on the political agenda

Reform of Social Security, HMSO, 3 Volumes, Cmnd. 9517, 9518, 9519.

Alcock P. , 'Socialist Security, Where Should We Be Going and Why?', Critical Social Policy, Issue 13, Summer 1985.

The most recent and well-documented explanation of the fictitious nature of the NI scheme is Dilnot, A et al, The Reform of Social Security, OUP 1984.

For instance, Lister, R. et al, What Future for Social Security? A Preliminary Commentary on the Green Paper on the Reform of Social Security , CPAG, 1985.

Townsend, P. Why Are the Many Poor?, Fabian Society, 1984.