Disciplinary partitioning and the privatisation of social security

In particular Papadakis E. and Taylor-Gooby P. The Private Provision of Public Welfare Wheatsheaf (1987).

This article presents in summary form arguments and concepts more fully developed in Dean H. 'Social Security, Social Control and the Tribunal Process' PhD Thesis, University of Kent at Canterbury ( 1988).

See for example - Kinkaid J.C. Poverty and Equality in Britain: A Study of Social Security and Taxation Penguin (1975); Townsend P. Poverty in the United Kingdom Penguin (1979); Field F. Inequality in Britain: Freedom, Welfare and the State Fontana (1981); Mack J. and Lansley S. Poor Britain Allen & Unwin ( 1984).

Beveridge Report Social Insurance and Allied Services Cmd 6406 HMSO (1942).

Green Paper 'The Reform of Social Security' Cmnd. 9517 HMSO (1985)

Foucault M. The History of Sexuality Penguin (1981) p 95.

Foucault M. Discipline and Punish Penguin (1979) pp 198/9.

Dean op cit, Chapters 1 to 3.

See Green Paper (1985) op cit and the provisions of Part III Social Security Act 1986 which ensued.

Dahrendorf R. 'The Underclass and the Future of Britain ' , St. George's House Tenth Annual Lecture, Windsor Castle, 27th April 1987.

Jordan B. Paupers: the Making of the Claiming Class RKP (1973 ) and Automatic Poverty, RKP (1981).

The provisions of Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 were amended by Social Security Act 1985 and new Regulations brought into force in April 1986 extended from 8 weeks to 28 weeks the period of 'initial sickness' during which employers are responsible for paying SSP to their employees.

See Taylor-Gooby P. and Lakeman S. 'Back to the Future: Statutory Sick Pay, Citizenship and Social Class' Journal of Social Policy Vol. 17 No. 1 (1988)

; and Dean H. and Taylor-Gooby P. 'Statutory Sick Pay and the Control of Sickness Absence' (forthcoming).

Dean and Taylor-Gooby op cit.

In particular Child Poverty Action Group 'No Way to Treat the Sick' (1980)

; Disability Alliance 'The Wrong Strategy' (1980).

Trades Union Congress 'Income During Initial Sickness - TUC Comments' (1980); Society of Civil and Public Servants 'Your Sickness Benefit Under Attack' (1980 ).

National Federation of Self Employed and Small Businesses 'Income During Initial Sickness: A Prescription for Disaster' (1980).

Confederation of British Industry Why the Government Needs to Think Again, (1980).

Green Paper 'Income During Initial Sickness: A New Strategy' Cmnd. 7864 HMSO (1980).

In particular Disney R. 'Statutory Sick Pay: An Appraisal ' Fiscal Studies, (1987) pp 58-76.

See Dean and Taylor-Gooby op cit.

Ibid.

This section of the article is largely based on findings from a survey of employers in East Kent, fully reported in Taylor-Googy P. and Dean H. ' The Unintended Consequences of Statutory Sick Pay' Report to the Nuffield Foundation upon the findings of research conducted under Grant Ref: 17/18 , University of Kent at Canterbury (1988).

CBI op cit

Chadwick K. 'A Prescription for Statutory Sick Pay and the Supplementary Benefits', Personnel Management (March 1983).

Taylor-Gooby and Lakeman op cit and Lonsdale S. and Byrne D. 'Social Security: from state insurance to private uncertainty' in Brenton M. and Ungerson C. (eds.) Yearbook of Social Policy 1987-88, Longmans (1988).

Disney op cit.

Novak T. Poverty and the State, Open University Press (1988) p 200.