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Page 173
... long - term unem- ployed apart from the Poor Law . Long - term ' insurance ' benefits were expensive . The government responded so generously , despite continuing calls to slash public expenditure and actual cuts in other areas of ...
... long - term unem- ployed apart from the Poor Law . Long - term ' insurance ' benefits were expensive . The government responded so generously , despite continuing calls to slash public expenditure and actual cuts in other areas of ...
Page 183
... long- term unemployment and the trim new suburbs of the South was at its most stark . In Crook , Co. Durham in 1936 , 7 per cent of the unemployed had been so for five years or longer . Some young peo- ple had never had work . In Jarrow ...
... long- term unemployment and the trim new suburbs of the South was at its most stark . In Crook , Co. Durham in 1936 , 7 per cent of the unemployed had been so for five years or longer . Some young peo- ple had never had work . In Jarrow ...
Page 208
... long - term decline but this was not yet evident to the government or to the Treasury , which long continued to try to encourage it . Labour saw subsidized local authority housing as the long - term solution to the housing problem . It ...
... long - term decline but this was not yet evident to the government or to the Treasury , which long continued to try to encourage it . Labour saw subsidized local authority housing as the long - term solution to the housing problem . It ...
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International comparisons 18701914 | 125 |
The interwar years | 189 |
The Second World War and after | 223 |
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Beyond the Welfare State?: The New Political Economy of Welfare Chris Pierson No preview available - 2006 |