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100	1		_aBoyer, George R., _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe winding road to the welfare state [electronic resource]: _beconomic insecurity and social welfare policy in Britain / _cGeorge R. Boyer.
264		1	_aPrinceton, New Jersey : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2019]
264		4	_c©2019
300			_a1 digital resource (xiii, 346 pages): _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aThe Princeton economic history of the Western world
500			_a"Dr Sothy's File"
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 311-334) and index.
505	0		_aEconomic Insecurity and Social Policy -- Part I. Social Policy and Self-Help in Victorian Britain. Poor Relief, Charity, and Self-Help in Crisis Times, 1834-69 -- Social Welfare Policy, Living Standards, and Self-Help, 1861-1908 -- Unemployment and Unemployment Relief -- Old Age Poverty and Pauperism -- Part II. Constructing the Welfare State. Living Standards in Edwardian England and the Liberal Welfare Reforms -- Social Welfare Policy and Living Standards between the Wars -- The Beveridge Report and the Implementation of the Welfare State -- What Was Gained.
520			_aHow 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 Labor'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.
650		0	_aWelfare state _zGreat Britain _xHistory.
650		0	_aPublic welfare _zGreat Britain _xHistory.
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPublic welfare. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01083250
650		7	_aSocial policy. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01122738
650		7	_aWelfare state. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01173685
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xSocial policy.
651		7	_aGreat Britain. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204623
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
830		0	_aPrinceton economic history of the Western world.
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