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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... unemployment in the countryside and emigration abroad and to British towns. Unemployed unskilled rural migrants added to the already overlarge pool of labour in many towns. Since this migration was primarily of young people, the age ...
... unemployment in the countryside and emigration abroad and to British towns. Unemployed unskilled rural migrants added to the already overlarge pool of labour in many towns. Since this migration was primarily of young people, the age ...
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... unemployment.10 National unemployment figures for this period are deficient but it was undoubtedly high at certain times, regionally and nationally, notably in 1867– 69, 1878–79, 1884–87, 1893–94. Rowntree made a further contribution to ...
... unemployment.10 National unemployment figures for this period are deficient but it was undoubtedly high at certain times, regionally and nationally, notably in 1867– 69, 1878–79, 1884–87, 1893–94. Rowntree made a further contribution to ...
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... unemployment and inadequate pay. Even those who believed that poverty was largely self-inflicted did not always adhere ... unemployed, recognizing that sometimes jobs were not to be found; others offered only the workhouse.14 Central and ...
... unemployment and inadequate pay. Even those who believed that poverty was largely self-inflicted did not always adhere ... unemployed, recognizing that sometimes jobs were not to be found; others offered only the workhouse.14 Central and ...
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... unemployed in London, the North East and elsewhere. It was difficult in the 1880s to ignore the fact that some of ... unemployment, old age, sickness and other causes of need. The Webbs devoted themselves to pressing these ideas upon ...
... unemployed in London, the North East and elsewhere. It was difficult in the 1880s to ignore the fact that some of ... unemployment, old age, sickness and other causes of need. The Webbs devoted themselves to pressing these ideas upon ...
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... unemployment. In the periods of high unemployment of the 1880s and 1890s, the Mansion House fund, with COS support, introduced work-creation schemes for the London unemployed. The largest of these in 1892 set to work only 253 out of 716 ...
... unemployment. In the periods of high unemployment of the 1880s and 1890s, the Mansion House fund, with COS support, introduced work-creation schemes for the London unemployed. The largest of these in 1892 set to work only 253 out of 716 ...
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