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  • The British Government and Social Security Fraud and Abuse

    1964 to 2004

    by Kevin Manton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    Studying the change in the government’s perception of, and responses to, fraud and abuse of the social security system, this book analyses how fraud appeared as a big political issue and the attitude that preceded this, dating this change to the 1970s.Based on research in government papers, the volume analyses and shows how and why early attempts to place a data-based, preventative dome over the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Modern British Data State, 1945-2000

    by Kevin Manton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    This political history studies the phenomenal growth of the modern British state’s interest in collecting, collating and deploying population data. It dates this biopolitical data turn in British politics to the arrival of the Labour government in 1964. It analyses government’s increased desire to know the population, the impact this has had on British political culture and the institutions and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Socialism and Education in Britain 1883-1902

    by Kevin Manton ...
    Series series Woburn Education Series
    Examines the British socialist movement in the last two decades of the 19th century through its policies on children's education. The author reassesses the nature of these policies and comments on the validity of those historiographical models used in analyses of the socialism of this period. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Population Registers and Privacy in Britain, 1936—1984

    by Kevin Manton ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the fraught political relationship between British governments, which wanted information about peoples’ lives, and the people who desired privacy. To do this it looks at something that Britain only experienced in wartime, a centralized and up-to-date list of everyone in the country: a population register. The abolition of this wartime system is contrasted with later attempts to ... Read more

    $71.99 USD