Inside the Welfare State - Noble, Virginia
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According to the standard narrative of twentieth-century social policy, the early years of the post-war welfare state were an uneventful period, requiring no major legislative interventions and dominated by the political consensus that the state should be the primary guarantor of social security. This new book reveals an entirely different dimension of social policy in this period, illuminating the inner workings of government agencies that were largely disregarded by contemporary politicians and have been neglected by scholars. This book considers the welfare state of the late 1940s, 1950s,…mehr

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According to the standard narrative of twentieth-century social policy, the early years of the post-war welfare state were an uneventful period, requiring no major legislative interventions and dominated by the political consensus that the state should be the primary guarantor of social security. This new book reveals an entirely different dimension of social policy in this period, illuminating the inner workings of government agencies that were largely disregarded by contemporary politicians and have been neglected by scholars. This book considers the welfare state of the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s from the vantage point of those who decided how welfare would be distributed. An interesting and original piece of work, this book will be of interest to scholars working in numerous disciplines including political history, public policy and British history.
By moving beyond consideration of the welfare legislation enacted in the 1940s, this book explains how government aid was actually provided in the new British welfare state created just after World War II. Revealing dimensions of social policy that have been neglected by scholars, this study uncovers the practices of the officials who decided how welfare would be distributed. Between 1945 and 1965, social policy was in a state of flux, as officials sought to reconcile the new welfare state's message of unqualified inclusion with deeply ingrained norms that militated against providing state aid to working-age men, to women who had even a tenuous connection to a male wage-earner, or to black and Asian immigrants who lacked an authentic "British" identity. Fusing the rationales of the poor law and the technologies of the modern bureaucratic state, various government branches tried to shape the behavior and attitudes of those seeking benefits. These mechanisms of welfare distribution created a bureaucratic language and logic that foreshadowed the more publicized, politicized anxieties that would surface as the welfare state itself came under attack later in the 20th century.
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Virginia Noble is partner at McGill and Noble Attorneys in Durham, North Carolina. She has taught at the University of North Carolina.