The evolution of the British welfare state : a history of social policy since the Industrial Revolution / Derek Fraser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fraser, Derek.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Social policy.

Great Britain.

Social policy.

Welfare state.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 387 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

"An excellent textbook covering the period from the late 18th century to the present day...and one which will surely become the standard introductory text."--Alan Deacon, British Book News In the 28 years since the first publication of this book it has become the standard text on the course of social policy and social ideas in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. Derek Fraser has again fully updated and revised each chapter in the light of recent research and has added a whole new chapter on the first 50 years of the Welfare State, taking the story up to the Blair government. The book contains useful appendices of contemporary documents and an updated bibliography of the subject.

Contents:

Select time chart, 1801-2002 xv

Foreword: Perspectives on the history of welfare xxiv

1 The factory question 11

I The factory child 11

II The state steps in, 1830-3 15

III The achievement of a ten-hour day 23

2 The Poor Law 33

I The 43rd of Elizabeth 33

II The road to 1834 40

III The new Poor Law 52

3 Public health 61

I The nature of the problem 61

II Propaganda in the age of Chadwick 66

III Administrative growth in the age of Simon 78

4 Education and welfare 85

I Elementary education 85

II Medical services 97

III Law and order 103

5 Laissez-faire and state intervention in the mid-nineteenth century 108

I Social ideas to c. 1870 108

II Social theory and state intervention 120

6 The growing awareness of poverty 135

I Victorian philanthropy and the Charity Organisation Society 135

II Poverty revealed 144

III Poverty and late Victorian politics 150

7 Liberal social policy, 1905-14 159

I The young and the old 159

II Lloyd George and the origins of the Welfare State 168

III Liberal social policy and the problem of work 184

8 Politics and policy, 1914-39 193

I War and post-war 193

II The central problem of unemployment 202

III Other areas of social policy 216

9 War and welfare in the 1940s 227

I The Second World War 227

II Labour and the creation of the Welfare State 245

10 The Welfare State

the first half-century 265

I Welfare consensus, 1951-79 265

II Thatcherism and the Welfare State in crisis, 1979-97 280

III Postscript: New Labour and the Third Way 288

1 The factory question 296

2 The Poor Law 301

3 Public health 305

4 Education and welfare 309

5 Laissez-faire and state intervention in the mid-nineteenth century 313

6 The growing awareness of poverty 316

7 Liberal social policy, 1905-14 324

8 Politics and policy, 1914-39 329

9 War and welfare in the 1940s 333.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-383) and index.

ISBN:

1403904693

0333946596

OCLC:

50207984