Hi chri5t1na,
Since I'm Canadian, and I find that OUR governments (federal,
provincial, and municipal) are all trying to back-paddle PDQ out of
funding not only social programmes but basic needs programmes like
education and health care, this question caught my eye.
The first site I looked at deals with social wages. I looked up a
glossary definition of social wage and came up with the following:
"Social Wage
That part of workers’ means of subsistence which is provided as a free
public service rather than purchased. In March 1969, the British Daily
Telegraph said: ‘The social wage in plain English means government
hand-outs, the exact opposite of a wage’."
Glossary of Terms - So
http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/s/o.htm
I wanted to be sure it meant what I thought before I included the
following site which provides information about a "...study by Tom
Sefton at the London School of Economics [which] examined who was
benefiting most from this, how the distribution has changed since
1979, and whether this has affected trends in income inequality."
The changing distribution of the 'social wage'
http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/SP114.asp
---------------
"This paper examines the course of the deregulation and privatisation
of public enterprises in the UK since 1979."
A survey of the liberalisation of public enterprises in the UK ...
http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/WoPEc/data/Papers/camcamdae9901.html
---------------
More links:
CRENOS - recent working papers and publications
http://www.crenos.unica.it/working/02_4.html
---------------
"... since 1979 more than £24 billion has been spent in tackling
congestion through investment on the national motorway and trunk road
network;"
UK Department for Transport | A New Deal for Transport: Better ...
http://www.dft.gov.uk/itwp/paper/annex/annexd.htm
---------------
I won't delve deeper into this since I'm merely a commenter, not a
researcher, and I don't want to step on toes, but if you use Google to
search with the keywords "privatisation in UK since 1979" you should
find information about other industry sectors.
Whatever your course of study, good luck with it!
Regards,
revbrenda1st |
