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Page 128
... groups in the early months of the war . + The beneficial effects of regular employment , longer hours ( a financial if by no means a social gain ) and rising wages in certain industries were offset by rapidly rising prices of essential ...
... groups in the early months of the war . + The beneficial effects of regular employment , longer hours ( a financial if by no means a social gain ) and rising wages in certain industries were offset by rapidly rising prices of essential ...
Page 291
... groups . However , reforms which benefited at least some workers and / or the dependent poor sometimes at least partly escaped this opposition since they were believed to be capable of providing benefits such as economic and military ...
... groups . However , reforms which benefited at least some workers and / or the dependent poor sometimes at least partly escaped this opposition since they were believed to be capable of providing benefits such as economic and military ...
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... groups to maintain social order it was a compromise which gave little to the least powerful , the very poor . This is not to argue for a conscious , malign , élite conspiracy against the masses . The élite acted rationally according to ...
... groups to maintain social order it was a compromise which gave little to the least powerful , the very poor . This is not to argue for a conscious , malign , élite conspiracy against the masses . The élite acted rationally according to ...
Contents
International comparisons 18701914 | 125 |
The interwar years | 189 |
The Second World War and after | 223 |
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A. L. Bowley areas authorities Beatrice Webb benefits Beveridge Board Britain British cent central charity child Committee Conservative contributions cost demand economic effect efficiency Eleanor Rathbone employers established expenditure family allowances fear finance full employment growth Guardians health service housing improved income increased industrial infant introduced Keynes labour movement Labour party legislation Liberal Lloyd George London major ment minimum national health national health service old-age pensions organizations out-door relief paid party paupers period planning political Poor Law poor relief population post-war poverty pre-war pressure problem proposals R. H. Tawney reconstruction reform rent Report result Rowntree Rowntree's scheme schools sickness social policy social services society standards tion towns trade union Treasury unem unemployed unemployment insurance wages wartime Webbs week welfare William Beveridge women workers workhouse working-class
References to this book
Beyond the Welfare State?: The New Political Economy of Welfare Chris Pierson No preview available - 2006 |