The Foundations of the Welfare StateA fully revised and rewritten second edition of a book which is now regarded as a classic. Takes full advantage of new research and places strong emphasis on voluntary action and the role of women in the shaping of social policy. It retains the excellent historical perspective that makes it unique among its competitors, comparing recent policy changes to pre-1950 welfare policy. |
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Page 8
... working - class household in York ( 11,560 ) to establish family income and expenditure and to record their impressions of living conditions . He also collected the impressions of neighbours , voluntary workers , clergy et al . The ...
... working - class household in York ( 11,560 ) to establish family income and expenditure and to record their impressions of living conditions . He also collected the impressions of neighbours , voluntary workers , clergy et al . The ...
Page 14
... Working - class ' self - help ' institutions such as Friendly Societ- ies and savings banks proliferated.18 Respectable workers were rewarded with the vote , and in 1868 the Royal Commission on Trade Unions recommended the extension of ...
... Working - class ' self - help ' institutions such as Friendly Societ- ies and savings banks proliferated.18 Respectable workers were rewarded with the vote , and in 1868 the Royal Commission on Trade Unions recommended the extension of ...
Page 15
... work or because there were insufficient jobs available ; and he accepted the need for punitive treatment of the ' undeserving ' . He believed that these people dragged down the standards of the whole working class , not necessarily ...
... work or because there were insufficient jobs available ; and he accepted the need for punitive treatment of the ' undeserving ' . He believed that these people dragged down the standards of the whole working class , not necessarily ...
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... working class were becoming increasingly active on various economic and political issues , and that organizations were being formed to defend and further their interests . In 1884 both the Fabian Society ( favouring gradualist reform ...
... working class were becoming increasingly active on various economic and political issues , and that organizations were being formed to defend and further their interests . In 1884 both the Fabian Society ( favouring gradualist reform ...
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... class consumption was not new in the 1880s . Dramatic and colourful vignettes of urban ' low life ' had had a large , fashionable readership in the 1850s and 1860s . The prevailing tone of the work of the 1880s was different : critical ...
... class consumption was not new in the 1880s . Dramatic and colourful vignettes of urban ' low life ' had had a large , fashionable readership in the 1850s and 1860s . The prevailing tone of the work of the 1880s was different : critical ...
Contents
Part Two Foundations of the Welfare State | 275 |
Part Three Documents | 295 |
Appendices | 343 |
Select bibliography | 349 |
Index | 352 |
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A. L. Bowley action areas authorities Beatrice Webb benefits Beveridge Board Britain British cent century charity child Committee Conservative contributions countries demand economic effect efficiency Eleanor Rathbone employers established expenditure family allowances fear finance full employment Germany growth guardians health service housing Ibid improved income increased industrial infant introduced Keynes labour movement Labour Party legislation Lloyd George London major maternity ment minimum mothers national health national health service National Insurance old-age pensions outdoor relief owing paid Party planning political Poor Law poor relief population post-war poverty pre-war pressure problem proposals R. H. Tawney reconstruction redistributive reform rent Rowntree scheme schools sickness social policy social services society standards subsidized Thane trade union Treasury unemployed unemployment insurance University Press voluntary hospitals wages wartime welfare William Beveridge women workers workhouse working-class