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 partly to the failure of alternative solutions to unemployment and partly to the apparent unlikelihood of more work being generated in the towns. Since the 1870s, agricultural depression had led to land and even rural jobs lying ...
... owing partly to the failure of alternative solutions to unemployment and partly to the apparent unlikelihood of more work being generated in the towns. Since the 1870s, agricultural depression had led to land and even rural jobs lying ...
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... owing to awareness of the hardship inflicted – those reduced to the extreme of applying for poor relief even in 1870 were those with no other resort, and their numbers could be further reduced only by increasing their hardship. Charity ...
... owing to awareness of the hardship inflicted – those reduced to the extreme of applying for poor relief even in 1870 were those with no other resort, and their numbers could be further reduced only by increasing their hardship. Charity ...
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... owing to their popularly believed, if apparently unfounded, association with prostitution.70 The mentally ill were treated either separately in Poor Law institutions or, increasingly, in the growing number of publicly financed county ...
... owing to their popularly believed, if apparently unfounded, association with prostitution.70 The mentally ill were treated either separately in Poor Law institutions or, increasingly, in the growing number of publicly financed county ...
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Pat Thane. enthusiastically by the LGB, partly owing to fears that its cheapness would encourage guardians to send children to unsuitable homes – fears which were justified by some unfortunate and tragic incidents of maltreatment and ...
Pat Thane. enthusiastically by the LGB, partly owing to fears that its cheapness would encourage guardians to send children to unsuitable homes – fears which were justified by some unfortunate and tragic incidents of maltreatment and ...
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... owing to temporary unemployment. The circular gave formal acknowledgement to a practice already employed by some authorities and which continued thereafter to be ignored by others. Chamberlain was explicit about his motives in a letter ...
... owing to temporary unemployment. The circular gave formal acknowledgement to a practice already employed by some authorities and which continued thereafter to be ignored by others. Chamberlain was explicit about his motives in a letter ...
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