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Providing a vital background to some of the pressing issues in contemporary New Zealand politics, this novel perspective on the distinctive foundations of the countryâs welfare state raises issues concerning modern-day concepts of citizenship as this welfare state comes under challenge. Government policy has been linked to this evolving social contract between wage earners and the state; With the contractâs genesis in the migration of wage earners from Britain in the 1840s, New Zealand became an experimental laboratory, first promoting settlement of the land, then safeguarding the economic position of the male breadwinner, andâwith the emergence of the welfare state in the early 20th centuryâprotecting the standard of living of families. As it explains the social policies and how they changed over time, this book reveals how honoring this contract was the driving force behind its evolution.

Honouring the Contract

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      Publisher Te Herenga Waka University Press
      Published 17 September 2010
      ISBN-13 9780864736345
      978-0864736345
      ISBN-10 0864736347
      Also in:
      Australasian and Pacific history Constitutional and administrative law: general

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      Book Synopsis
      Providing a vital background to some of the pressing issues in contemporary New Zealand politics, this novel perspective on the distinctive foundations of the countryâs welfare state raises issues concerning modern-day concepts of citizenship as this welfare state comes under challenge. Government policy has been linked to this evolving social contract between wage earners and the state; With the contractâs genesis in the migration of wage earners from Britain in the 1840s, New Zealand became an experimental laboratory, first promoting settlement of the land, then safeguarding the economic position of the male breadwinner, andâwith the emergence of the welfare state in the early 20th centuryâprotecting the standard of living of families. As it explains the social policies and how they changed over time, this book reveals how honoring this contract was the driving force behind its evolution.

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