The Development Of Social Welfare In Britain

Author : Midwinter , Eric
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335191048

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The Development Of Social Welfare In Britain by Midwinter , Eric Pdf

This textbook is aimed at undergraduate and diploma students across a wide range of the social sciences, with particular reference to those preparing for or involved in careers in social and public administration. It provides, in compact form, the story of social provision from medieval times to the present day, systematically examining major themes of: the relief of poverty and social care; healthcare and housing; crime and policing; and education. With the rise of the Welfare State, and its current questioning as the chief focus, the book sets out to analyze how the state has responded to the social problems that have beset it. Consideration is given to comparative elements in Europe, North America and elsewhere, together with specific reference to issues of race, ethnicity and gender. A specially prepared glossary completes what is a review and description of the growth and present disposition of the full range of social and public services in Britain.

Author : Derek Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:49015002301373

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The Evolution of the British Welfare State by Derek Fraser Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Page,Richard Silburn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349273980

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British Social Welfare in the Twentieth Century by Robert Page,Richard Silburn Pdf

This major thematic and historical overview provides a clear guide to key welfare practices and developments in the public, private, voluntary and informal welfare sectors in twentieth-century Britain, outlining the dominant ideas about welfare in the period in question. As such, it offers an effective bridge between historical and contemporary concerns, drawing out some of the more rarely articulated premises of courses in the history of social policy and illuminating the social, political and economic dimensions of its subject.

Author : Michael Sullivan
Publisher : Prentice Hall PTR
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018377023

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The Development of the British Welfare State by Michael Sullivan Pdf

The Development of the British Welfare State is divided into three parts, allowing for use on both chronological and service-based courses: Part I provides a chronological overview of the development of the welfare state from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day; Part II concentrates on the history of the five main welfare service sectors: health, education, personal social services, housing and social security.

Author : Bernard Harris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137079800

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The Origins of the British Welfare State by Bernard Harris Pdf

Over the last 200 years Britain has witnessed profound changes in the nature and extent of state welfare. Drawing on the latest historical and social science research The Origins of the British Welfare State looks at the main developments in the history of social welfare provision in this period. It looks at the nature of problems facing British society in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries and shows how these provided the foundation for the growth of both statutory and welfare provision in the areas of health, housing, education and the relief of poverty. It also examines the role played by the Liberal government of 1906-14 in reshaping the boundaries of public welfare provision and shows how the momentous changes associated with the First and Second World Wars paved the way for the creation of the 'classic' welfare state after 1945. This comprehensive and broad-ranging yet accessible account encourages the reader to question the 'inevitability' of present-day arrangements and provides an important framework for comparative analysis. It will be essential reading for all concerned with social policy, British social history and public policy.

Author : George R. Boyer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691183992

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The Winding Road to the Welfare State by George R. Boyer Pdf

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 : E. P. Hennock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521592123

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The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914 by E. P. Hennock Pdf

This book offers a comparison of the origins of the welfare state in England and Germany (1850-1914).

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 8711 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315459769

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Routledge Library Editions: The History of Social Welfare by Various Pdf

This set of 25 volumes, originally published between 1805 and 1992, amalgamates original nineteenth-century material and more recent research and analysis on the development of social welfare in Britain and Europe. From Elizabethan poor relief, through the Poor Laws of the nineteenth-century, to the establishment of the British National Health Service in the mid twentieth-century, this set provides a comprehensive overview of the germination and establishment of modern social welfare. Although the set mainly focuses on social welfare in Britain, it also contains some work on welfare in Europe. This set will be of keen interest to those studying the history of social welfare, social policy, poverty and class.

Author : Paul A. Fideler
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780333688953

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Social Welfare in Pre-industrial England by Paul A. Fideler Pdf

Crossing period boundaries separating late medieval, early modern, and long eighteenth-century England, Paul A. Fideler offers a coherent overview of parish-centered social welfare from its medieval roots, through its institutionalisation in the Elizabethan Poor Law, to its demise in the early years of the Industrial Revolution. The study: - incorporates the latest scholarship - weaves together social, economic, demographic, medical, political, religious and ideological history - offers fresh treatments of the contextual importance of Christian moral theology in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, humanist and protestant thought in the sixteenth century and neo-Stoic benevolence and political arithmetic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - explores two competing approaches to social welfare: societas (voluntary, rooted in custom and tradition) and civitas (mandatory, embedded in policy and law) - concludes with a detailed examination of the first histories of social welfare in England undertaken in the late eighteenth century.

Author : Derek Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:492343051

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The Evolution of the British Welfare State by Derek Fraser Pdf

Author : Jameel Hampton
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447316428

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Disability and the Welfare State in Britain by Jameel Hampton Pdf

From its very start at the end of World War II, the British welfare state—despite its grand promises—excluded millions of disabled people.Disability and the Welfare State in Britain traces attempts over the subsequent three decades to reverse this exclusion. The first book to set disability in the context of the history of the welfare state, it shows how policy and perceptions were slow to change, and it offers close analysis of key groups and moments, like the Disablement Income Group and the 1972 Thalidomide campaign.

Author : Lawrence Goldman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192569455

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Welfare and Social Policy in Britain Since 1870 by Lawrence Goldman Pdf

This collection of twelve essays reviews the history of welfare in Britain over the past 150 years. It focuses on the ideas that have shaped the development of British social policy, and on the thinkers who have inspired and also contested the welfare state. It thereby constructs an intellectual history of British welfare since the concept first emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. The essays divide into four sections. The first considers the transition from laissez-faire to social liberalism from the 1870s, and the enduring impact of late-Victorian philosophical idealism on the development of the welfare state. It focuses on the moral philosophy of T. H. Green and his influence on key figures in the history of British social policy like William Beveridge, R. H. Tawney, and William Temple. The second section is devoted to the concept of 'planning' which was once, in the mid-twentieth century, at the heart of social policy and its implementation, but which has subsequently fallen out of favour. A third section examines the intellectual debate over the welfare state since its creation in the 1940s. Though a consensus seemed to have emerged during the Second World War over the desirability and scope of a welfare state extending 'from the cradle to the grave', libertarian and conservative critiques endured and re-emerged a generation later. A final section examines social policy and its implementation more recently, both at grass roots level in a study of community action in West London in the districts made infamous by the fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017, and at a systemic level where different models of welfare provision are shown to be in uneasy co-existence today. The collection is a tribute to Jose Harris, emeritus professor of history in the University of Oxford and a pioneer of the intellectual history of social policy. Taken together, these essays conduct the reader through the key phases and debates in the history of British welfare.

Author : James Midgley,David Piachaud
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849808491

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Colonialism and Welfare by James Midgley,David Piachaud Pdf

The British Empire is part covered three centuries, five continents and onequarter of the world's population. Its legacy continues, shaping the societies and welfare policies of much of the modern world. In this book, for the first time, this legacy is explored and analysed. Colonialism and Welfare reveals that social welfare policies, often discriminatory, and challenging to those colonised were introduced and imposed by the ?mother country.' It highlights that there was great diversity in rationales and impacts across the empire, but past developments had a major impact on the development of much of the world's population. Contributions from every continent explore both the diversity and the common themes in the imperial experience. They examine the legacy of colonial welfare - a subject largely neglected by both historians of empire and social policy analysts. This original book shows that social welfare today cannot be understood without understanding the legacy of the British Empire. Academics, specialised students with an interest in comparative social policy, history of social policy, imperial history, colonialism, and contemporary third world social policy will find this book invaluable to their studies.

Author : Derek Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:601511165

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The Evolution of the British Welfare State by Derek Fraser Pdf

Author : Sadou Boubacar
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783668558069

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Origins of the British Welfare State and its Evolution in the 20th Century by Sadou Boubacar Pdf

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Modern Times, Absolutism, Industrialization, grade: -, , course: British Welfare State, language: English, abstract: If one was to broadly assert about the main areas of concern and interest for any given state, nation state or whichever form of governance, the domestic policies and the foreign ones would probably be the answer. Though many political entities in the past, or in the present, tend to overlook the domestic matters, it almost always proves to be the case that domestic affairs are as much important as foreign influence - if not much more. In the case of Britain, which formerly led an unchallenged imperial life from the 15th century to the 20th century, many internal social polices had to be carried out during the first half of the 20th century. This move towards the improvement of living conditions in Britain gradually evolved to facilitate the creation of the welfare state in 1945. A broad definition of a welfare state would include the many services every state provides, but in the case of Britain the term takes a more narrowed meaning. A welfare state is that state which provides benefits to its citizens in such areas as unemployment, medical care, education and housing. Before we mention such welfare policies under the Labour Party in Britain after World War II, we will take a look at a background to it, and then we will enumerate some difficulties and the consequential comeback to power of the Conservatives in 1951.