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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... school board visitors, whose job was to investigate why children did not attend school, and who consequently were closely acquainted with poorer families. This was not an unreasonable procedure at a time when poverty was startlingly ...
... school board visitors, whose job was to investigate why children did not attend school, and who consequently were closely acquainted with poorer families. This was not an unreasonable procedure at a time when poverty was startlingly ...
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... School Boards27 – or to demanding the vote as a result of their experience of voluntary action. Charitable work had long been an acceptable and popular activity for middle- and working-class women. There were an estimated 500,000 such ...
... School Boards27 – or to demanding the vote as a result of their experience of voluntary action. Charitable work had long been an acceptable and popular activity for middle- and working-class women. There were an estimated 500,000 such ...
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... schools, such as the Jewish Free School of east London, were designed to mollify criticism and anti-semitism by providing for Jewish needs without recourse to the funds of the host community. Roman Catholic charity and the work of ...
... schools, such as the Jewish Free School of east London, were designed to mollify criticism and anti-semitism by providing for Jewish needs without recourse to the funds of the host community. Roman Catholic charity and the work of ...
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... schools and other facilities either from philanthropic motives or in order to attract scarce labour. After 1870, larger numbers of companies made a wider range of provision, including, in some cases, old-age pensions and health care ...
... schools and other facilities either from philanthropic motives or in order to attract scarce labour. After 1870, larger numbers of companies made a wider range of provision, including, in some cases, old-age pensions and health care ...
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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