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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... owing to decline in demand for British produce, and increased imports of cheap food from abroad. The resulting fall in food prices was beneficial for wage-earners, but it caused unemployment in the countryside and emigration abroad and ...
... owing to decline in demand for British produce, and increased imports of cheap food from abroad. The resulting fall in food prices was beneficial for wage-earners, but it caused unemployment in the countryside and emigration abroad and ...
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... owing mainly to falling food prices, but unemployment and increased insecurity for many. Poverty was coming to be seen as a 'problem' concentrated in certain social groups and arising from definable misfortunes rather than as something ...
... owing mainly to falling food prices, but unemployment and increased insecurity for many. Poverty was coming to be seen as a 'problem' concentrated in certain social groups and arising from definable misfortunes rather than as something ...
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... owing to death or emigration. This was often the case with the aged who made up a high proportion of paupers. It was found, time and again, that the old were not, as moralists feared, abandoned by unfeeling children, but either had had ...
... owing to death or emigration. This was often the case with the aged who made up a high proportion of paupers. It was found, time and again, that the old were not, as moralists feared, abandoned by unfeeling children, but either had had ...
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... owing to proximity to the largest concentration of wealth in the country – the remainder of London. In general the availability of charity varied with the existence or not of a resident bourgeoisie with a surplus to give, although a ...
... owing to proximity to the largest concentration of wealth in the country – the remainder of London. In general the availability of charity varied with the existence or not of a resident bourgeoisie with a surplus to give, although a ...
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... owing to his experience in a very poor Whitechapel parish, had become convinced that the COS did not understand the meaning of poverty and the helplessness which it bred. He came to believe that to help the poor and to achieve social ...
... owing to his experience in a very poor Whitechapel parish, had become convinced that the COS did not understand the meaning of poverty and the helplessness which it bred. He came to believe that to help the poor and to achieve social ...
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