TY - BOOK AU - Fraser,Derek TI - The evolution of the British welfare state: a history of social policy since the industrial revolution SN - 9780230224650 (hbk.) U1 - 361.650941 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Welfare state KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Public welfare N1 - 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 ER -