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The evolution of the British welfare state : a history of social policy since the Industrial Revolution / Derek Fraser.
Author
Fraser, Derek
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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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HN385 .F66 2017
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Subject(s)
Welfare state
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Great Britain
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History
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Public welfare
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Great Britain
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History
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Great Britain
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Social policy
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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
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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'.
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ISBN
9781137605870 ((hardback))
1137605871 ((hardback))
9781137605887 ((paperback))
113760588X ((paperback))
OCLC
981118050
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