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The Evolution of the British Welfare State

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  • © 1984
  • Latest edition

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Authors:
  1. Derek Fraser

    1. University of Teesside, United Kingdom

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
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  2. Introduction

    • Derek Fraser
    Pages 1-9

  3. The Factory Question

    • Derek Fraser
    Pages 11-30

  4. The Poor Law

    • Derek Fraser
    Pages 31-55

  5. Public Health

    • Derek Fraser
    Pages 56-77

  6. Education and Welfare

    • Derek Fraser
    Pages 78-98

  7. Laissez-faire and State Intervention in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

    • Derek Fraser
    Pages 99-123

  8. The Growing Awareness of Poverty

    • Derek Fraser
    Pages 124-145

  9. Liberal Social Policy, 1905-14

    • Derek Fraser
    Pages 146-176

  10. Politics and Policy 1914-39

    • Derek Fraser
    Pages 177-206

  11. War and Welfare in the 1940s

    • Derek Fraser
    Pages 207-239

  12. Conclusion

    • Derek Fraser
    Pages 240-294

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 295-326
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This book has become the standard text on the course of social policy and social ideas in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. To the first edition Professor Fraser has added a new foreword which sets out the variety of approaches which now exist to the history of social policy. Each chapter has been up-dated and revised in the light of recent research and five further documents have been added to the appendix. In a new postscript Professor Fraser discusses the welfare state in the period since 1973 and suggests what its future may be in the 1980s. The bibliography has been completely revised and contains a full survey of articles, so providing a fully up-to-date second edition which offers new insights and material in the light of current research. A third edition, which will bring this classic text up to the 1990s will be published in 1996.

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  • University of Teesside, United Kingdom

    Derek Fraser

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