Abstract
The preceding three chapters focused upon wage supplements, poor relief and public assistance. They demonstrated that, while at local level ways were developed to support households where the breadwinner was in full-time wage work, central government was firmly against such a means of poverty relief, at least rhetorically, unless it was in exceptional circumstances. This chapter focuses upon the period between the final abolition of the poor law in 1948 and the mid-1960s. Despite ceasing its analysis in the mid-1960s, it is the first of two chapters to examine the introduction of family income suplement (FIS) in 1971. This is because the origins of FIS lie in the ‘rediscovery of poverty’ following the publication of Abel-Smith and Townsend’s (1965), The Poor and the Poorest.
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