From Beveridge to Blair : the first fifty years of Britain's welfare state, 1948-1998 / edited by Margaret Jones and Rodney Lowe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Margaret, 1946-

Lowe, Rodney.

Series:

Documents in contemporary history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Public welfare.

Welfare state--History--20th century.

Welfare state.

History.

Great Britain--Social policy.

Great Britain.

Social policy.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1945-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

ix, 232 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

This book is designed to inform and stimulate debate by providing a concise introduction to the evolution of both the structure of Britain's welfare state and attitudes towards it. It then concentrates on five core services: health care, education, social security, the personal social services and housing. For each it examines the original vision, the attempts to implement this vision, the resulting complexities and controversies and, above all, the impact on individual ' customers' .

Contents:

1 The political debate 16

2 Social security 41

3 Health care 82

4 Education 113

5 Housing 154

6 The personal social services 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0719041023

0719041031

OCLC:

49238879