The evolution of the British welfare state : a history of social policy since the industrial revolution / Derek Fraser.
Publication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Edition: 4th edDescription: xxiii, 434 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780230224650 (hbk.); 0230224652 (hbk.); 9780230224667 (pbk.); 0230224660Subject(s): Welfare state -- Great Britain -- History | Public welfare -- Great Britain -- HistoryDDC classification: 361.650941
Contents:
List of Tables.- Preface.- Preface to the Second Edition.- Preface to the Third Edition.- Preface to the Fourth Edition.- Acknowledgements.- Select Time Chart, 1801-2008.- Introduction: Perspectives on the History of Welfare.- The Factory Question .- The Poor Law.- Public Health.- Education and Welfare.- Laissez-faire and State Intervention in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.- The Growing Awareness of Poverty.- Liberal Social Policy, 1905-14.- Politics and Policy, 1914-39.- War and Welfare in the 1940s.- The Welfare State in Modern Britain.- Documentary Appendix.- Notes and References.- Select Bibliography.- Index.
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Previous ed.: 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Tables.- Preface.- Preface to the Second Edition.- Preface to the Third Edition.- Preface to the Fourth Edition.- Acknowledgements.- Select Time Chart, 1801-2008.- Introduction: Perspectives on the History of Welfare.- The Factory Question .- The Poor Law.- Public Health.- Education and Welfare.- Laissez-faire and State Intervention in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.- The Growing Awareness of Poverty.- Liberal Social Policy, 1905-14.- Politics and Policy, 1914-39.- War and Welfare in the 1940s.- The Welfare State in Modern Britain.- Documentary Appendix.- Notes and References.- Select Bibliography.- Index.