The evolution of the British welfare state : a history of social policy since the Industrial Revolution / Derek Fraser.

Author
Fraser, Derek [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Fifth edition.
Published/​Created
  • [London] : Palgrave, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
xx, 429 pages ; 25 cm

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    Summary note
    Remaining one of the most widely used and highly regarded introductions to the history of British social policy and social ideas, this text is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in how and why Britain created the first Welfare State. It offers the only survey of the whole period, from the late eighteenth century to the present day, now including discussion of the Coalition and Theresa May's early Prime Ministership.
    Notes
    • "macmillan education."
    • Previous editions published: 1973, 1984, 2003, 2009.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-410) and index.
    Contents
    • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Perspectives on the history of welfare
    • 2. The factory question
    • I. The factory child
    • II. The state steps in, 1830
    • 3
    • III. The achievement of a 10-hour day
    • 3. The Poor Law
    • I. The 43rd of Elizabeth
    • II. The road to 1834
    • III. The new Poor Law
    • 4. Public health
    • I. The nature of the problem
    • II. Propaganda in the age of Chadwick
    • III. Administrative growth in the age of Simon
    • 5. Education and welfare
    • I. Elementary education
    • II. Medical services
    • III. Law and order
    • 6. Laissez-faire and state intervention in the mid-nineteenth century
    • I. Social ideas to c. 1870
    • II. Mutual aid and working-class self-help
    • III. Social theory and state intervention
    • 7. The growing awareness of poverty
    • I. Victorian philanthropy and the Charity Organisation Society
    • II. Poverty revealed
    • III.
    • Poverty and late Victorian politics
    • 8. Liberal social policy, 1905
    • 14
    • I. The young and the old
    • II. Lloyd George and the origins of the Welfare State
    • III. Liberal social policy and the problem of work
    • 9. Politics and policy, 1914
    • 39
    • I. War and post-war
    • II. The central problem of unemployment
    • III. Other areas of social policy
    • 10. War and welfare in the 1940s
    • I. The Second World War
    • II. Labour and the creation of the Welfare State
    • 11. The Welfare State in Modern Britain
    • I. Welfare consensus, c1951
    • c.1979
    • II. Thatcherism and the Welfare State in crisis, 1979
    • 97
    • III. New Labour and the Third Way
    • IV. Welfare in an age of austerity
    • 12. Conclusion
    • I. Two centuries of welfare history: An overview
    • 1. Workhouse to welfare
    • 2. The meandering stream of welfare history
    • 3. The complex relationship of empiricism and ideology
    • 4.
    • Democratisation and the politics of welfare
    • 5. The Welfare State was and is `A Good Thing'.
    ISBN
    • 9781137605870 ((hardback))
    • 1137605871 ((hardback))
    • 9781137605887 ((paperback))
    • 113760588X ((paperback))
    OCLC
    981118050
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