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Towards a New Growth Strategy: Promoting Decent Work in the United Kingdom

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The British Growth Crisis

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This chapter addresses the role of the social dimension in economic growth strategies, in particular in regard to the United Kingdom. In 2011, a meeting of international experts and senior technical officials from 16 different multilateral organisations concluded that the economic crisis had prompted a rethink of orthodox economic approaches to development and begun a search for alternative models (ILO, 2011a). Concurrently, there have been increased calls for a greater recognition of how social and economic dimensions intertwine for development (see, for example, Townsend, 2009), and demands for new models that better integrate economic and social policies. Such integration will, as pointed out by Jenkins (2010) and Ryder (2010), require new conceptual paradigms.

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    Jeremy Green (Research Fellow) & Colin Hay (Professor of Political Science) (Research Fellow) &  (Professor of Political Science)

  2. University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

    Peter Taylor-Gooby (Professor of Social Policy) (Professor of Social Policy)

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Pyke, F. (2015). Towards a New Growth Strategy: Promoting Decent Work in the United Kingdom. In: Green, J., Hay, C., Taylor-Gooby, P. (eds) The British Growth Crisis. Building a Sustainable Political Recovery: SPERI Research & Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137441522_14

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