Welfare Policy in Britain: The Road from 1945

by Rodney Lowe (Editor), Helen Fawcett (Editor)

Overview

The welfare state arouses controversy whether attention is focused on its recent past or future development. Leading experts in welfare history draw together the latest research in essays combining broad policy surveys and detailed case studies. The key questions are 'What is a welfare state?' and 'How can it best be analysed?'. The history of the British welfare state suggests that the traditional approach has been too narrow. Current policy should be informed by a greater sense of history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333675137
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/19/1999
Series:	Contemporary History in Context
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

DAVID GLADSTONE Director of Undergraduate Programmes in Social Policy, University of Bristol PAUL JOHNSON Reader in Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science JANE LEWIS Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics JOHN MACNICOL Reader in Social Policy, Royal Holloway, University of London CHRIS PIERSON Professor of Politics, University of Nottingham LORD PLANT Master of St Catherine's College Oxford SAMIT SAGGAR Senior Lecturer in Government, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London JOHN VEIT-WILSON Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Northumbria and Visiting Professor, Department of Social Policy, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Table of Contents

Preface; P.Catterall Introduction; R.Lowe Inequality Redistribution and Living Standards in Britain since 1945; P.Johnson Renegotiating the Boundaries: Risk, Responsibility in Personal Welfare since 1945; D.Gladstone The Voluntary Sector and the State in Twentieth Century Britain; J.Lewis From Problem Family to Underclass, 1945-95; J.Macnicol Democratic Socialism and Equality; R.Plant The National Assistance Board and the Rediscovery of Poverty; J.V.Wilson The Trade Union Movement the Social Contract and Social Policy 1970-74; H.Fawcett Immigration and Economics: the Politics of Race and Immigration in the Postwar Period; S.Saggar The Welfare State: from Beveridge to Borrie; C.Pierson Index

Editorial Reviews

Brings together the latest historical research to address questions surrounding definitions, analysis of a welfare state, and whether lessons from history can inform current policy. Surveys the development of the personal social services and the redistribution of resources since 1945, and offers detailed case studies of the "rediscovery" of poverty in the 1960s and the construction of an underclass. Other subjects are democratic socialism and equality, the National Assistance Board, and the politics of race. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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