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. |
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Page 85
... labour exchanges , training of juvenile labour , decasualization , counter - cyclical intervention by the state in industry and military service to absorb some of the unemployed . Churchill's move to the Board of Trade in 1908 coincided ...
... labour exchanges , training of juvenile labour , decasualization , counter - cyclical intervention by the state in industry and military service to absorb some of the unemployed . Churchill's move to the Board of Trade in 1908 coincided ...
Page 138
... labour , especially on the docks , and to extend the coverage of unemployment insurance . By the end of the war Beveridge , together with Llewellyn Smith , had achieved legislation whereby 25 per cent of the workforce was included in ...
... labour , especially on the docks , and to extend the coverage of unemployment insurance . By the end of the war Beveridge , together with Llewellyn Smith , had achieved legislation whereby 25 per cent of the workforce was included in ...
Page 185
... Labour had opposed it . The Conservatives included pensions in the brief to a committee established in 1923 , chaired by Sir John Anderson , to investigate all aspects of national insurance . Its first report , in January 1924 ...
... Labour had opposed it . The Conservatives included pensions in the brief to a committee established in 1923 , chaired by Sir John Anderson , to investigate all aspects of national insurance . Its first report , in January 1924 ...
Contents
The First World War and after | 119 |
The interwar years | 153 |
The Second World War and after | 211 |
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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