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.
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.
Tables Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction; R.L.Silburn PART ONE: THE CENTURY SURVEYOR The Twentieth Century: An Overview; J.Stewart Paying for Welfare in the Twentieth Century; J.Tomlinson PART TWO: POLITICAL IDEAS Neoclassicism, The New Right and British Social Welfare; N.Barry New Liberalism and the Middle Way, R.Pinker Democratic Socialism and Social Policy; M.Sullivan PART THREE: WELFARE AND THE STATE Education; M.Sanderson Health; H.Jones Employment, Unemployment and the Labour Market; S.Glynn Poverty and Social Security; P.Alcock Housing; N.Ginsburg PART FOUR: WELFARE OUTSIDE THE STATE Voluntary and Informal Welfare; J.Lewis Commercial and Occupational Welfare; M.May & E.Brunsdon PART FIVE: THE FUTURE The Prospects for Social Welfare at the Millennium; R.Page Bibliography Index.
Tables Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction; R.L.Silburn PART ONE: THE CENTURY SURVEYOR The Twentieth Century: An Overview; J.Stewart Paying for Welfare in the Twentieth Century; J.Tomlinson PART TWO: POLITICAL IDEAS Neoclassicism, The New Right and British Social Welfare; N.Barry New Liberalism and the Middle Way, R.Pinker Democratic Socialism and Social Policy; M.Sullivan PART THREE: WELFARE AND THE STATE Education; M.Sanderson Health; H.Jones Employment, Unemployment and the Labour Market; S.Glynn Poverty and Social Security; P.Alcock Housing; N.Ginsburg PART FOUR: WELFARE OUTSIDE THE STATE Voluntary and Informal Welfare; J.Lewis Commercial and Occupational Welfare; M.May & E.Brunsdon PART FIVE: THE FUTURE The Prospects for Social Welfare at the Millennium; R.Page Bibliography Index.
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