All Stories

  1. The Wage Stop and Restricting Benefit Income in the United Kingdom: Discretion, Wages and Hardship

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, November 2024, Wiley

    Chris Grover

  2. Explaining the abolition of the wage stop in the UK

    Article • Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, February 2024, Policy Press

    Chris Grover

  3. The politics of job retention schemes in Britain: The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme

    Article • Critical Social Policy, April 2022, SAGE Publications

    Chris Grover

  4. Book Review: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton

    Article • Critical Social Policy, December 2021, SAGE Publications

    Chris Grover

  5. The Household Benefit Cap: understanding the restriction of benefit income in Britain

    Article • Journal of Social Policy, October 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Chris Grover

  6. Understanding material assistance in the Children and Young Persons Act 1963: Idealism and classical liberalism in England and Wales

    Article • Qualitative Social Work, January 2020, SAGE Publications

    Chris Grover

  7. Violent proletarianisation: Social murder, the reserve army of labour and social security ‘austerity’ in Britain

    Article • Critical Social Policy, December 2018, SAGE Publications

    Chris Grover

  8. Developments in loaning social assistance: support for mortgage interest in Britain

    Article • Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, January 2018, Policy Press

    Chris Grover

  9. Ending reassessment for employment and support allowance for some disabled people in the UK

    Article • Disability & Society, June 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Chris Grover

  10. A very capitalist condition: a history and politics of disability

    Article • Disability & Society, February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Chris Grover

  11. The end of an era? The resignation of Iain Duncan Smith, Conservatism and social security benefits for disabled people

    Article • Disability & Society, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Chris Grover

  12. From wage supplements to a 'living wage? A commentary on the problems of predistribution in Britains summer budget of 2015

    Article • Critical Social Policy, June 2016, SAGE Publications

    Chris Grover

  13. Employment and Support Allowance, the ‘summer budget’ and less eligible disabled people

    Article • Disability & Society, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Chris Grover

  14. Atos Healthcare withdraws from the Work Capability Assessment: a comment

    Article • Disability & Society, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Chris Grover

  15. From the social fund to local welfare assistance: Central–local government relations and ‘special expenses’

    Article • Public Policy and Administration, April 2014, SAGE Publications

    Chris Grover

  16. The Allen Report: class, gender and disadvantage

    Article • Families Relationships and Societies, November 2013, Policy Press

    Ms Claire Mason, Chris Grover

  17. Neoliberal restructuring, disabled people and social (in)security in Australia and Britain

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, September 2013, Stockholm University Press

    Chris Grover

  18. Employment and Support Allowance: capability, personalization and disabled people in the UK

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, June 2013, Stockholm University Press

    Chris Grover

  19. A commentary on resistance to the UK’s Work Experience programme: Capitalism, exploitation and wage work

    Article • Critical Social Policy, January 2013, SAGE Publications

    Chris Grover

  20. Disability and Social (In)Security: Emotions, Contradictions of ‘Inclusion’ and Employment and Support Allowance

    Article • Social Policy and Society, November 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Chris Grover

  21. Localism and poverty in the United Kingdom: the case of Local Welfare Assistance

    Article • Policy Studies, July 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Chris Grover

  22. ‘Personalised conditionality’: Observations on active proletarianisation in late modern Britain

    Article • Capital & Class, June 2012, SAGE Publications

    Chris Grover

  23. Social Protest in 2011: Material and Cultural Aspects of Economic Inequalities

    Article • Sociological Research Online, December 2011, SAGE Publications

    Chris Grover

  24. Cutting social security and tax credit spending

    Article • Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, October 2011, Policy Press

    Chris Grover

  25. From Incapacity Benefit to Employment and Support Allowance: social sorting, sickness and impairment, and social security

    Article • Policy Studies, March 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Chris Grover

  26. No one written off? Welfare, work and problem drug use

    Article • Drugs Education Prevention and Policy, February 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Chris Grover

  27. Abolishing the 10p tax band: some observations

    Article • Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, February 2010, Policy Press

    Chris Grover

  28. Privatizing employment services in Britain

    Article • Critical Social Policy, July 2009, SAGE Publications

    Chris Grover

  29. Retrenching Incapacity Benefit: Employment Support Allowance and Paid Work

    Article • Social Policy and Society, March 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Chris Grover

  30. The third way: a compromise of the Left? New Labour, the Independent Labour Party and making work pay

    Article • Policy & Politics, January 2009, Policy Press

    Chris Grover

  31. Loaning Supplementary Benefit and the Introduction of the Social Fund

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, October 2008, Wiley

    Chris Grover

  32. Social security, employment and Incapacity Benefit: critical reflections onA new deal for welfare

    Article • Disability & Society, November 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Chris Grover

  33. Sure Start and the `re-authorization' of Section 47 child protection practices

    Article • Critical Social Policy, November 2007, SAGE Publications

    Chris Grover

  34. The Freud Report on the future of welfare to work: Some critical reflections

    Article • Critical Social Policy, November 2007, SAGE Publications

    Chris Grover

  35. Disabled people, the reserve army of labour and welfare reform

    Article • Disability & Society, December 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Chris Grover

  36. Living wages and the ‘making work pay’ strategy

    Article • Critical Social Policy, February 2005, SAGE Publications

    Chris Grover

  37. Modernizing Social Security? Labour and its Welfare-to-work Strategy

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, September 2000, Wiley

    Chris Grover

  38. Bigamy: Neither Love Nor Marriage, but a Threat to the Nation?

    Article • The Sociological Review, May 1999, SAGE Publications

    Chris Grover

  39. ‘Market Workfare’: Social Security, Social Regulation and Competitiveness in the 1990s

    Article • Journal of Social Policy, January 1999, Cambridge University Press

    Chris Grover

  40. A Note on Computer Searches of Newspapers

    Article • Sociology, August 1997, SAGE Publications

    Chris Grover

  41. ‘A Murderous ‘Underclass’? The Press Reporting of Sexually Motivated Murder

    Article • The Sociological Review, August 1996, SAGE Publications

    Chris Grover

  42. Ethnicity, the search for rapists and the press

    Article • Ethnic and Racial Studies, July 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Chris Grover

  43. Marital rape in the news

    Article • Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, December 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Chris Grover