Table 6.2 Estimates of poverty in the UK, 1950–75 Year Study Source Unit % of total Number population (million) 1950 Rowntree” Survey Household 1.7 Atkinson* 5.8 1953–4 Abel-Smith and Townsend FES Household 1.2 0.6 1954 Gough and Stark ...
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 ...
This is the third edition of a book which has established itself as a standard work on the British welfare state for students and general readers alike.
This account of welfare policy in Britain analyzes the period of so-called consensus between 1945 and 1975 and the years between 1975 and 1990 when state welfare came under ideological...
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