The Origins of the Liberal Welfare Reforms 1906-1914
Author : J. Roy Hay
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 27,95 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
The Origins of the Liberal Welfare Reforms 1906–1914
Author : J R Hay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 1983-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1349069418
Book Description
This study examines the different approaches of social scientists and historians to the origins of social welfare legislation between 1906 and 1914. From this critical review Mr Hay shows how the Liberal legislation can be seen as one example of a process common to advanced industrial societies. He outlines the fundamental economic, political, ideological and institutional pressures for reform, analyses recent research on each aspect and demonstrates the importance of the conversion of a significant proportion of the ruling elite to acceptance of the value of social legislation. The individual reforms are examined and assessment made of the particular influences which were important in each case. Mr Hay concludes that the origins of the Liberal social legislation are not to be found in piecemeal remedies for specific social problems nor in the vision of a few influential individuals. There were, he shows, competing proposals for social reform at the turn of the century. Part of the problem is to explain why the Liberal solutions were adopted, but he poses the more fundamental question: Why were all the various proposals under discussion? In answer, he points out that Liberal social reform was only one part of a search for ways of preserving British society from internal and external challenges.
The origins of the liberal welfare reforms 1906-1914
Author : James R. Hay
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 1980
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State
Author : Susan Pedersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 37,62 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780521558341
Book Description
A comparative analysis of social policies in Britain and France between 1914 and 1945.
Churchill, His Radical Decade
Author : Malcolm Hill
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
Winston Churchill was a rare figure both in war and peace. Yet in much of peacetime, he was by his own standards, unremarkable. But in the first decade of this century, his finest in peace, he led from the forefront of the Cabinet, the campaign to eradicate poverty through the reform of taxation. At the some time he embraced state mitigation of poverty. He stood at a cross-roads and attempoted to go in opposite directions. throughout this century poverty has outpaced mitigation. What cannot be achieved by expenditure of a hundred billon pounds annually, could be secured by justice without state expenditure of one penny.
Property and Politics 1870-1914
Author : Avner Offer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 1981-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521224144
Book Description
This book presents an innovative study on the history and impact of landed property, urban development and taxation between 1870-1914.
The Winding Road to the Welfare State
Author : George R. Boyer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691183996
Book Description
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 Labour’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.
Liberalism and Sociology
Author : Stefan Collini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 1979-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521223041
Book Description
In this wide-ranging book, Stefan Collini deals with the relationship between Liberalism and sociology in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. He discusses in particular the crucial contributions of L. T. Hobhouse, the leading Liberal political theorist of the period who is also generally regarded as the 'Founding Father' of British sociology. Based upon extensive original research, the book draws together themes from three fields which are normally pursued in historiographical isolation. It examines the moral and intellectual inspiration of the New Liberalism which came to dominate Edwardian politics; explores the nature of the systematic political philosophy in this period; and shows how the contemporary understanding of sociology was bound up with attempts to provide a theoretical and historical grounding for the belief in Progress, especially in opposition to Social Darwinist and other biological social theories. Throughout, the intellectual context necessary to a properly historical understanding of these ideas is reconstructed in detail and particular attention if paid to the structure of the moral and political discourse of the time.
The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State
Author : Francis G. Castles
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 019162828X
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The book is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state 's history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state embraces. The first of these sections looks at inputs and actors (including the roles of parties, unions, and employers), the impact of gender and religion, patterns of migration and a changing public opinion, the role of international organisations and the impact of globalisation. The next two sections cover policy inputs (in areas such as pensions, health care, disability, care of the elderly, unemployment, and labour market activation) and their outcomes (in terms of inequality and poverty, macroeconomic performance, and retrenchment). The seventh section consists of seven chapters which survey welfare state experience around the globe (and not just within the OECD). Two final chapters consider questions about the global future of the welfare state. The individual chapters of the Handbook are written in an informed but accessible way by leading researchers in their respective fields giving the reader an excellent and truly up-to-date knowledge of the area under discussion. Taken together, they constitute a comprehensive compendium of all that is best in contemporary welfare state research and a unique guide to what is happening now in this most crucial and contested area of social and political development.
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
Author : Gosta Esping-Andersen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745666752
Book Description
Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the most distinguished contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary advanced western societies. Esping-Andersen distinguishes several major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different western countries. Current economic processes, the author argues, such as those moving towards a post-industrial order, are not shaped by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences. Fully informed by comparative materials, this book will have great appeal to everyone working on issues of economic development and post-industrialism. Its audience will include students and academics in sociology, economics and politics.
