The leading postwar social democratic thinkers were T. H. Marshall (Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics, 1930–56), Richard Titmuss (Professor of Social Administration, London School ...
The Welfare State in Britain presents a history of British social policy from the election of Clement Attlee to the fall of Margaret Thatcher.Michael Hill focuses upon the political processes...
33 Susan Pedersen, Family, Dependence and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914–1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p.176. 34 Seth Koven and Sonya Michel, 'Womanly Duties: Maternalist Politics and ...
This is a new edition of one of the most widely used texts on the history of social policy.
'. 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.
This book is innovative in the range and scope of its research, its comparative focus, and its argument, which poses a challenge to older class-based interpretations of the development of the welfare state.
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.
This is a new edition of one of the most widely used texts on the history of social policy in Britain.
This is a unique and timely survey of the evolving priorities of the British welfare state since its inception in the late 1940s, with an emphasis on how current and future aims and features of welfare provision compare with the ambitions ...
Kiernan, Land, andLewis, Lone Motherhood in Twentieth Century Britain,p.185. 15. Claire Callender, “Redundancy, EmploymentandPoverty,” in Caroline Glendinning andJane Millar (eds.)Womenand Poverty in Britain, Brighton: Wheatsheaf Books ...
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...