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This study makes a significant contribution to the recent debate over the nature and motivation of late-Victorian and Edwardian social policy. It provides a case study with which to assess the hypotheses put forward by social scientists as to the relationship between social statistics and policy.
List of contents
Part 1: The Context 1. The Terms of the Debate 2. The Labour Problem Part 2: The Inputs 3. The Origins of the Labour Department 4. The Production Structure of Labour Statistics Part 3: The Output 5. The Commodity Structure of Labour Statistics: Rationale and Content 6. The Commodity Structure of Labour Statistics: The Shortfall Part 4: The Constraints 7. Treasury Control and Labour Statistics 8. The Failure of Ancillary Producers 9. Industrial Resistance 10. The Technical Structure of Labour Statistics 11. The Ideology of Labour Administration Part 5: The Implications 12. Labour Statistics and Social Policy
About the author
Roger Davidson is Emeritus Professor of Social History in the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on the history of medical and governmental responses to sexual issues. He is author of Dangerous Liaisons: A Social History of Venereal Disease in Twentieth-Century Scotland (2000), The Sexual State: Sexuality and Scottish Governance, 1950-80 (2012), and Illicit and Unnatural Practices: The Law, Sex and Society in Scotland since 1900 (2019).
Summary
This study makes a significant contribution to the recent debate over the nature and motivation of late-Victorian and Edwardian social policy. It provides a case study with which to assess the hypotheses put forward by social scientists as to the relationship between social statistics and policy.
