The Welfare State In Britain
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Author | : George R. Boyer |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2018-12-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0691183996 |
How did Britain transform itself from a nation of workhouses to one that became a model for the modern welfare state? The Winding Road to the Welfare State investigates the evolution of living standards and welfare policies in Britain from the 1830s to 1950 and provides insights into how British working-class households coped with economic insecurity. George Boyer examines the retrenchment in Victorian poor relief, the Liberal Welfare Reforms, and the beginnings of the postwar welfare state, and he describes how workers altered spending and saving methods based on changing government policies. From the cutting back of the Poor Law after 1834 to Parliament’s abrupt about-face in 1906 with the adoption of the Liberal Welfare Reforms, Boyer offers new explanations for oscillations in Britain’s social policies and how these shaped worker well-being. The Poor Law’s increasing stinginess led skilled manual workers to adopt self-help strategies, but this was not a feasible option for low-skilled workers, many of whom continued to rely on the Poor Law into old age. In contrast, the Liberal Welfare Reforms were a major watershed, marking the end of seven decades of declining support for the needy. Concluding with the Beveridge Report and Labour’s social policies in the late 1940s, Boyer shows how the Liberal Welfare Reforms laid the foundations for a national social safety net. A sweeping look at economic pressures after the Industrial Revolution, The Winding Road to the Welfare State illustrates how British welfare policy waxed and waned over the course of a century.
Author | : Jameel Hampton |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2016-05-17 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1447316428 |
The British Welfare State initially seemed to promise welfare for all, but excluded millions of disabled people. This book examines attempts in the subsequent three decades to reverse this exclusion. It also provides the first major analysis of the Disablement Income Group and the Thalidomide campaign.
Author | : James Bartholomew |
Publisher | : Biteback Publishing |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1849546819 |
The welfare state is one of Britain's crowning achievements. Or is it? In this seminal book, now studied in universities in Britain and elsewhere, James Bartholomew advances the sacrilegious argument that, however well meaning its founders, the welfare state has done more harm than good. He argues that far from being the socialist utopia the post-war generation dreamed of, the welfare state has led to avoidable deaths in the NHS, falling standards in schools, permanent mass unemployment and many other unintended consequences. At a deeper level, he contends that the welfare state has caused millions to live deprived and even depraved lives, undermining the very decency and kindness which first inspired it. This landmark book changed the way many people think about the welfare state. It played a major role in the political debate that led to recent reforms. Now with a new introduction by the author assessing the value of these reforms, this classic text still shocks with the power of its arguments and the weight of its supporting evidence.
Author | : Susan Pedersen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780521558341 |
A comparative analysis of social policies in Britain and France between 1914 and 1945.
Author | : David Garland |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199672660 |
This Very Short Introduction discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, and comparative perspective, David Garland brings a new understanding to familiar debates, policies, and institutions.
Author | : Pauline Gregg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael James Hill |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
This textbook uses political theory to explain the growth of welfare in post-war Britain with special emphasis on social policy.
Author | : Rodney Lowe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : |
This account of welfare policy in Britain analyzes the period of so-called consensus between 1945 and 1975 and the years between 1975 and 1990 when state welfare came under ideological attack. The guide provides an assessment of the relative successes and failures of social and employment policy.
Author | : Christopher Pierson |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2021-09-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1447361199 |
In this book, Chris Pierson argues that we will need to think quite differently about the British welfare state after COVID-19. He looks back to the welfare state’s origins and development as well as forwards, unearthing some surprising solutions in unexpected places.
Author | : Derek Fraser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
This book has become the standard text on the course of social policy and social ideas in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. To the first edition Professor Fraser has added a new foreword which sets out the variety of approaches which now exist to the history of social policy. Each chapter has been up-dated and revised in the light of recent research and five further documents have been added to the appendix. In a new postscript Professor Fraser discusses the welfare state in the period since 1973 and suggests what its future may be in the 1980s. The bibliography has been completely revised and contains a full survey of articles, so providing a fully up-to-date second edition which offers new insights and material in the light of current research. A third edition, which will bring this classic text up to the 1990s will be published in 1996.