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The winding road to the welfare state [electronic resource] economic insecurity and social welfare policy in Britain
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| 서명/저자사항 | The winding road to the welfare state : economic insecurity and social welfare policy in Britain/ George R. Boyer. [electronic resource]. |
| 개인저자 | Boyer, George R.,author. |
| 발행사항 | Princeton: Princeton University, [2019]. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
| 총서사항 | The Princeton economic history of the Western world |
| ISBN | 9780691183992 0691183996 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | Economic Insecurity and Social Policy -- Part I. Social Policy and Self-Help in Victorian Britain. Poor Relief, Charity, and Self-Help in Crisis Times, 1834-69 -- Social Welfare Policy, Living Standards, and Self-Help, 1861-1908 -- Unemployment and Unemployment Relief -- Old Age Poverty and Pauperism -- Part II. Constructing the Welfare State. Living Standards in Edwardian England and the Liberal Welfare Reforms -- Social Welfare Policy and Living Standards between the Wars -- The Beveridge Report and the Implementation of the Welfare State -- What Was Gained. |
| 요약 | How did Britain transform itself from a nation of workhouses to one that became a model for the modern welfare state? The Winding Road to the Welfare State investigates the evolution of living standards and welfare policies in Britain from the 1830s to 1950 and provides insights into how British working-class households coped with economic insecurity. George Boyer examines the retrenchment in Victorian poor relief, the Liberal Welfare Reforms, and the beginnings of the postwar welfare state, and he describes how workers altered spending and saving methods based on changing government policies. From the cutting back of the Poor Law after 1834 to Parliament's abrupt about-face in 1906 with the adoption of the Liberal Welfare Reforms, Boyer offers new explanations for oscillations in Britain's social policies and how these shaped worker well-being. The Poor Law's increasing stinginess led skilled manual workers to adopt self-help strategies, but this was not a feasible option for low-skilled workers, many of whom continued to rely on the Poor Law into old age. In contrast, the Liberal Welfare Reforms were a major watershed, marking the end of seven decades of declining support for the needy. Concluding with the Beveridge Report and Labor's social policies in the late 1940s, Boyer shows how the Liberal Welfare Reforms laid the foundations for a national social safety net. A sweeping look at economic pressures after the Industrial Revolution, The Winding Road to the Welfare State illustrates how British welfare policy waxed and waned over the course of a century. |
| 주제명(지명) | Great Britain --Social policy. Great Britain. --fast |
| 일반주제명 | Welfare state --Great Britain --History. Public welfare --Great Britain --History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services. Public welfare. Social policy. Welfare state. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions |
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