Winding Road to the Welfare State (eBook)

Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain

George R. Boyer (Autor)

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2018 | 1. Auflage
384 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18399-2 (ISBN)

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George R. Boyer is professor of economics and international and comparative labor at Cornell University. He is the author of An Economic History of the English Poor Law, 1750-1850.

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.12.2018
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: 1905 Unemployed Workmen Act • Adobe • Agriculture • Amendment • Beveridge Report • Board of guardians • British Social Policy • British social welfare policy • British welfare policy • Calculation • capital expenditure • Capitalism • central government • Charity • Charity Organization Society • Charles Booth (social reformer) • Coal Mining • Criticism • Crusade Against Outrelief • debt • Demand For Labor • developed country • Disability benefits • Disposable and discretionary income • economic dislocations • Economic Growth • Economic History • Economic insecurity • Economic Loss • Economics • Economic Security • economist • economy • Employment • England and Wales • extreme poverty • Family Support • Financial Distress • Friendly Societies • Friendly society • Funding • Generosity • Gross Domestic Product • Guaranteed minimum income • Household • Household income • income • income distribution • income loss • industrial capitalism • industrialisation • insurance • insurance policy • interwar Britain • Job Loss • laborer • Lancashire Cotton Famine • Legislation • Liberal Welfare Reforms • Living Standards • local government • Local Government Board • manual labour • manual workers • middle class • minimum wage • Mutual insurance • national health insurance • National Health Service • national insurance • Octavia Hill • Old age • old age pauperism • Older Workers • outdoor relief • pauperism • Payment • Pension • Pensioner • percentage • Percentage point • Poor Law • Poor Law Commission • poor law union • Poor rate • poor relief • Poverty • Provision (contracting) • purchasing power • receipt • Recession • Retirement • Rowntree's • Royal Commission • saving • select committee • Self-Help • Shipbuilding • sickness • skilled worker • social income • Social Insurance • social insurance regime • Social Policies • Social Policy • social safety net • social security system • Social Security System (Philippines) • Social Welfare • Social welfare policies • Social Welfare Policy • social welfare protection • standard of living • Subsidy • Tax • Taxpayer • The Other Hand • Trade Union • underemployed laborers • Unemployment • Unemployment benefits • unemployment relief • Unions • Upper Class • Victorian Era • Victorian poor relief • wage • Wealth • welfare • Welfare policy • Welfare reform • welfare reforms • Welfare State • Workers • Workforce • workhouse • Working Class • working-class behavior • working-class households • work relief • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18399-6 / 0691183996
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18399-2 / 9780691183992