Evolution of the British Welfare State - Fraser, Derek
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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 half century 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.
Table of contents:
List of Tables
Preface
Preface to the Second Edition…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
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 half century 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.

Table of contents:
List of Tables
Preface
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgements
Select Time Chart
Foreword: Perspectives on the History of Welfare
Introduction
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
Welfare State - The First Half Century
Documentary Appendix
Notes and References
Select Bibliography
Index
Autorenporträt
DEREK FRASER is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Teesside. He was formerly Professor of Modern History at the University of Bradford and Professor of English History at the University of California at Los Angeles.