A generation of change, a lifetime of difference?

Reviews / Votes

"This is an important book: full of relevant research findings, clear exposition, and judicious judgements." Citizen's Income Newsletter "..will provide a rich source for furthering the study, teaching and analysis of social policy." Simon Rahilly in Journal of Social Policy "This original study of British social policy over the last three decades provides an utterly novel understanding of the British welfare state 'from cradle to grave' (now 'from buggy to crematorium') and the transformed society within which it operates. Evans and Williams have written an ambitious, imaginative and timely book that takes the best of British social policy analysis to a new level. It will be a must-read for students, researchers and policy makers." Ian Gough AcSS, Professor of Social Policy, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath "Adopting a truly original perspective Evans and Williams have provided an immensely valuable book, demonstrating how social policy and taxation have profound effects on all of us at different points during our lives. The book will be an immense asset for the social policy community and a major contribution to the literature on social policy in the UK generally - and on the way in which social policy (and taxation) has contributed to changing living standards since the mid 1970s in particular. It is a major tour de force and unrivalled in its breadth, range and empirical scope. I am convinced that the book will become a major reference text for research as well as teaching in social policy and sociology, particularly in courses centred on inequality, lifetime perspectives, social security and taxation, as well as the empirical underpinning and outcomes of policy reform since the mid 1970s." Jochen Clasen, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh