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.
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.
Lawrence Goldman was educated at Cambridge and at Yale where he was a Harkness Fellow. After a junior research fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, he spent 29 years as a university lecturer in Oxford and as a tutorial fellow of St. Peter's College, moving to the Directorship of the Institute of Historical Research in the University of London in 2014. From its publication in 2004 until 2014, he was the Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Throughout his career he has taught both modern British and American History and published widely on the political and social history of both countries, including studies of the history of workers' education, Victorian social science, and the biography of the political thinker and historian, R. H. Tawney.
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* Foreword * List of Contributors * Introduction * Part I: Idealism and its Legacy * 1: Sandra den Otter: "The Organized Selfishness of Empire": Welfare Philosophies, Human Rights, and Empire in Britain, 1870-1920 * 2: Stuart Jones: The Civic Moment in British Social Thought: Civil Society and the Ethics of Citizenship, c. 1880-1914 * 3: Lawrence Goldman: Founding the Welfare State: Beveridge, Tawney and Temple * 4: William Whyte: Private Benefit, Public Finance? Student Funding in late-twentieth century Britain * Part II: Planning * 5: Brian Harrison: Planning in Modern Britain: Its History and Dimensions * 6: Daniel Ritschel: "Socialist Realism": The Short Life of Left-wing Economic Revisionism in the 1920s * 7: Julia Moses: The Reluctant Planner: T. H. Marshall and Political Thought in British Social Policy * Part III: Contesting Welfare * 8: Ben Jackson: Richard Titmuss versus the IEA: the Transition from Idealism to Neo-liberalism in British Social Policy * 9: Edmund Neill: Conservative Thinkers and the Post-War State, 1945-79 * 10: Matthew Grimley: You got an Ology? The Backlash Against Sociology in Britain, c. 1945-1990 * Part III: Beyond the Welfare State * 11: John Davis: Reshaping the Welfare State? Voluntary Action and Community in London, 1960-1975 * 12: Mark Bevir: A New Governance: Hierarchies, Markets, and Networks, cc. 1979-2010
* Foreword * List of Contributors * Introduction * Part I: Idealism and its Legacy * 1: Sandra den Otter: "The Organized Selfishness of Empire": Welfare Philosophies, Human Rights, and Empire in Britain, 1870-1920 * 2: Stuart Jones: The Civic Moment in British Social Thought: Civil Society and the Ethics of Citizenship, c. 1880-1914 * 3: Lawrence Goldman: Founding the Welfare State: Beveridge, Tawney and Temple * 4: William Whyte: Private Benefit, Public Finance? Student Funding in late-twentieth century Britain * Part II: Planning * 5: Brian Harrison: Planning in Modern Britain: Its History and Dimensions * 6: Daniel Ritschel: "Socialist Realism": The Short Life of Left-wing Economic Revisionism in the 1920s * 7: Julia Moses: The Reluctant Planner: T. H. Marshall and Political Thought in British Social Policy * Part III: Contesting Welfare * 8: Ben Jackson: Richard Titmuss versus the IEA: the Transition from Idealism to Neo-liberalism in British Social Policy * 9: Edmund Neill: Conservative Thinkers and the Post-War State, 1945-79 * 10: Matthew Grimley: You got an Ology? The Backlash Against Sociology in Britain, c. 1945-1990 * Part III: Beyond the Welfare State * 11: John Davis: Reshaping the Welfare State? Voluntary Action and Community in London, 1960-1975 * 12: Mark Bevir: A New Governance: Hierarchies, Markets, and Networks, cc. 1979-2010
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