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. |
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... child, when the family had most dependants, in early middle life after marriage and the arrival of young children and again in old age. This implied that the proportion of the population experiencing poverty at some point in their lives ...
... child, when the family had most dependants, in early middle life after marriage and the arrival of young children and again in old age. This implied that the proportion of the population experiencing poverty at some point in their lives ...
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... children, but either had had no children or the children were dead, had migrated or were too poor to feed another family member. Institutionalization, then as now, was the fate of only a small minority (around 4 per cent) of old people ...
... children, but either had had no children or the children were dead, had migrated or were too poor to feed another family member. Institutionalization, then as now, was the fate of only a small minority (around 4 per cent) of old people ...
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... children and, given the high infant death rate, parents were accused of using the probability of a child's death as a means of accumulating a small nest-egg. This was a less common practice than contemporaries believed and it was hardly ...
... children and, given the high infant death rate, parents were accused of using the probability of a child's death as a means of accumulating a small nest-egg. This was a less common practice than contemporaries believed and it was hardly ...
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... children from such homes could attend schools with other children. The development of such institutions resulted partly from the dissemination of beliefs in the importance of a child's environment upon personality, and of realization ...
... children from such homes could attend schools with other children. The development of such institutions resulted partly from the dissemination of beliefs in the importance of a child's environment upon personality, and of realization ...
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... children to unsuitable homes – fears which were justified by some unfortunate and tragic incidents of maltreatment and exploitation of child labour. There was also a shortage of staff to supervise placements, and some opposition to the ...
... children to unsuitable homes – fears which were justified by some unfortunate and tragic incidents of maltreatment and exploitation of child labour. There was also a shortage of staff to supervise placements, and some opposition to the ...
Contents
Introduction | |
International comparisons 18701914 | |
The First World War and after | |
The interwar years | |
The Second World War and after | |
International comparisons 1920 to the Second World | |
Assessment | |
List of Documents 119 | |
Appendices | |
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A. L. Bowley action administration areas authorities Beatrice Webb benefits Beveridge Beveridge’s 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 improved income increased industrial infant introduced Keynes labour movement Labour Party legislation Lloyd George London Macmillan major maternity 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 responsibility Rowntree scheme schools sickness social policy social services society standards subsidized Thane trade union Treasury unemployed unemployment insurance voluntary hospitals wages wartime welfare William Beveridge women workers workhouse working-class