Abstract
This article addresses the relationship of British social policies to the gender and race contradictions specific to the capitalist system and how it developed in that social formation. Based on the framework of the Social Reproduction Theory, we trace this relationship from its genesis, showing how the formulation and implementation of these policies at the beginning of the 20th century helped to materialize certain gender relations and specific notions of citizenship, nation, and wage labour that in practice enshrined internal divisions within the working class as a whole, establishing hierarchical social roles among different subordinate groups.
Keywords:
Great Britain; social policies; Social Reproduction Theory