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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... British 'welfare state' has faced a critical assault with calls from all political positions for fundamental re-evaluation. It is argued that government social expenditure has grown to a level and in a fashion which is both economically ...
... British 'welfare state' has faced a critical assault with calls from all political positions for fundamental re-evaluation. It is argued that government social expenditure has grown to a level and in a fashion which is both economically ...
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... British state have grown over this century with an assumed belief that they grew in the best and most beneficial of ways. In general, historians have analysed the first proposition without subscribing to the second. Their work, however ...
... British state have grown over this century with an assumed belief that they grew in the best and most beneficial of ways. In general, historians have analysed the first proposition without subscribing to the second. Their work, however ...
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... 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 to British towns. Unemployed ...
... 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 to British towns. Unemployed ...
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... British industry from expanding economies, such as those of Germany and the United States, caused employers to seek means of increasing productivity. One of these was the beginning of a gradual trend towards laying off workers at ...
... British industry from expanding economies, such as those of Germany and the United States, caused employers to seek means of increasing productivity. One of these was the beginning of a gradual trend towards laying off workers at ...
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... British economy was capable of such sustained progress. These generalizations contain some truths but oversimplify and distort a complex process of change. There was increasing recognition of the complexity of the causes of poverty and ...
... British economy was capable of such sustained progress. These generalizations contain some truths but oversimplify and distort a complex process of change. There was increasing recognition of the complexity of the causes of poverty and ...
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