The U.S. Welfare State and the Working Class, 1952-1980

E. Ahmet Tonak
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E. Ahmet Tonak: Social Studies Division, Simon's Rock of Bard College, Great Barrington, MA 01230.

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1987, vol. 19, issue 1, 47-72

Abstract: The main focus of this study is the role of the state in the distribution process vis-a-vis the working class in the United States during the period 1952-1980. This focus led me to formulate and then answer a question: what is the net impact of the distributive activities of the state on the wages of the working class as a whole and various segments within it? In order to deal with this question I proposed a concept, net-tax, which is taxes paid to the state minus benefits and income received from it. The empirical findings of the article concerning the net-tax paid by labor led me to call into question the economically beneficial role of the welfare state in relation to the wages of the working class.

Date: 1987
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