Beveridge Report - Blueprint for the Welfare State

This book provides the definitive account of the making of the 1942 Beveridge Report and its influence on wartime and post-war social policy.

List of contents

0. Introduction: The Beveridge Report: Perspectives and Purposes 1. British Social Services Pre-Beveridge 2. Wartime Social Policy 3. The Beveridge Committee at Work 4.The Beveridge Report - The Evidence 5.The Beveridge Report - Composition and Content 6. The Beveridge Report - The Response 7.Planning for Welfare - Without Beveridge 8. Beveridge Mark II - "My Goodness My Beveridge" 9. Labour and the Creation of the Welfare State 10. Conclusion: Beveridge - The Legacy

About the author

Derek Fraser is Emeritus Professor at the University of Teesside, where he served as Vice-Chancellor for 11 years.

Summary

This book provides the definitive account of the making of the 1942 Beveridge Report and its influence on wartime and post-war social policy.

Product details

• Authors: Derek Fraser, Fraser Derek
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2022
• EAN: 9780367765354
• ISBN: 978-0-367-76535-4
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, Social welfare & social services, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Social welfare and social services, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)