Movement for Family Allowances in Great Britain, 1918-45
Author: John Macnicol
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Published: 1978
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The Movement for Family Allowances in Great Britain, 1918-45
Author: J. S. Macnicol
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Published: 1978
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Author: John Macnicol
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Battle for Britain
Author: Mary Evans
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 1134979207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is generally accepted that Britain was held together during the second world war by a spirit of national democratic `consensus'. But whose interests did the consensus serve? And how did it unravel in the years immediately after victory? This well observed and powerfully argued book overturns many of our assumptions about the national spirit of 1939-45. It shows that the current return to right-wing politics in Britain was prefigured by ideologies of change during and immediately after the war.
Social Welfare in Britain 1885-1985
Author: Rex Pope
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-10-03
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1135785414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of documents follows the same format as Pope and Hoyle’s British Economic Performance (1984), to provide a survey of the main developments in social welfare. Students of economic and social history and of social policy and administration are being required to do more and more work with original documents, and this collection is tailored to meet their needs. The primary sources are presented in two sections, covering the periods 1885-c. 1940 and c. 1940 to 1985. During the former, ideas on, and the scope of, welfare provision, broadened greatly. There was a sense of progress. Developments though were piecemeal. There was no conception of a ‘Welfare State’. The second period begins with the changes associated with the assumption that Britain was establishing a Welfare State. But the hopes of 1940 have not been fulfilled, and there has been growing speculation about the value of such an organisation of society. The extracts reflect these changes. They are grouped under the headings to facilitate reference. Students at all levels, especially A-level, first degree and professional training courses, will find the book a valuable resource. Materials included are drawn from minutes of evidence, newspapers, political party publications and professional bodies and groups.
Feminism, Femininity and the Politics of Working Women
Author: Gillian Scott
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-11
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1135360316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text discusses the development of the Women's Co-operative Guild from the 1880s to World War II. Charting the rise and fall of a feminist organization, the author assesses its political significance and examines the causes of its demise.
Law and Society in England 1750-1950
Author: William Cornish
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-10-31
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13: 1509931260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaw and Society in England 1750–1950 is an indispensable text for those wishing to study English legal history and to understand the foundations of the modern British state. In this new updated edition the authors explore the complex relationship between legal and social change. They consider the ways in which those in power themselves imagined and initiated reform and the ways in which they were obliged to respond to demands for change from outside the legal and political classes. What emerges is a lively and critical account of the evolution of modern rights and expectations, and an engaging study of the formation of contemporary social, administrative and legal institutions and ideas, and the road that was travelled to create them. The book is divided into eight chapters: Institutions and Ideas; Land; Commerce and Industry; Labour Relations; The Family; Poverty and Education; Accidents; and Crime. This extensively referenced analysis of modern social and legal history will be invaluable to students and teachers of English law, political science, and social history.
Equality and the British Left
Author: Ben Jackson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780719073069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe demand for equality has been at the heart of the politics of the Left in the twentieth century, but what did theorists and politicians on the British Left mean when they said they were committed to 'equality'? How did they argue for a more egalitarian society? Which policies did they think could best advance their egalitarian ideals? Equality and the British Left provides the first comprehensive answers to these questions. It charts debates about equality from the progressive liberalism and socialism of the early twentieth century to the arrival of the New Left and revisionist social democracy in the 1950s. Along the way, it examines and reassesses the egalitarian political thought of many significant figures in the history of the British Left, including L. T. Hobhouse, R. H. Tawney and Anthony Crosland. This book demonstrates that the British Left has historically been distinguished from its ideological competitors on the Centre and the Right by a commitment to a demanding form of economic egalitarianism. It shows that this egalitarianism has come to be neglected or caricatured by politicians and scholars alike, and is more surprising and sophisticated than is often imagined. Equality and the British Left offers a compelling new perspective on British political thought that will appeal to scholars and students of British history and political theory, and to anyone interested in contemporary debates about progressive politics.
Family Men
Author: Laura King
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-01-09
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0192599542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFathers are often neglected in histories of family life in Britain. Family Men provides the first academic study of fathers and families in the period from the First World War to the end of the 1950s. It takes a thematic approach, examining different aspects of fatherhood, from the duties it encompassed to the ways in which it related to men's identities. The historical approach is socio-cultural: each chapter examines a wide range of historical source materials in order to analyse both cultural representations of fatherhood and related social norms, as well as exploring the practices and experiences of individuals and families. It uncovers the debates surrounding parenting and family life and tells the stories of men and their children. While many historians have examined men's relationship to the home and family in histories of gender, family life, domestic spaces, and class cultures more generally, few have specifically examined fathers as crucial family members, as historical actors, and as emotional individuals. The history of fatherhood is extremely significant to contemporary debate: assumptions about fatherhood in the past are constantly used to support arguments about the state of fatherhood today and the need for change or otherwise in the future. Laura King charts men's changing experiences of fatherhood, suggesting that although the roles and responsibilities fulfilled by men did not shift rapidly, their relationships, position in the family, and identities underwent significant change between the start of the First World War and the 1960s.
Radical History Review: Volume 69
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-04-02
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521637626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRadical History Review presents innovative scholarship and commentary that looks critically at the past and its history from a non-sectarian left perspective.
