Economic Policy Under the Conservatives, 1951-64
Author: Astrid Ringe
Publisher: University of London Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
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Welfare Policy Under the Conservatives, 1951-1964
Author: Paul Bridgen
Publisher: Public Record Office Publications
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook summarizes the development of all welfare policies in the period 1951-1964, and provides a guide to records available, or about to become available, at the Public Record Office. The previous volume in the series covered the years 1939 to 1951.
The Conservative Party and social policy
Author: Bochel, Hugh
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2011-03-23
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1447315111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the Conservative Party breaking new ground in forming a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats, this book examines the development and content of the Conservatives' approaches to social policy and how they inform the Coalition's policies. Chapters cover the development of Conservative Party social policy and specific policy areas. The book will be of interest to academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and everyone with an interest in the Conservative Party and the Coalition government's social policies.
Labor Divided in the Postwar European Welfare State
Author: Dennie Oude Nijhuis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-06-24
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 110703549X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains how the success of attempts to expand the boundaries of the postwar welfare state in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom depended on organized labor's willingness to support redistribution of risk and income among different groups of workers. By illuminating and explaining differences within and between labor union movements, it traces the historical origins of 'inclusive' and 'dual' welfare systems. In doing so, the book shows that labor unions can either have a profoundly conservative impact on the welfare state or act as an impelling force for progressive welfare reform. Based on an extensive range of archive material, this book explores the institutional foundations of social solidarity.
Revisiting the Welfare State
Author: Robert Page
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Published: 2007-09-16
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0335234984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat was the impact of the Second World War on the development of the welfare state? Did Attlee’s pioneering post-war Labour governments create the welfare state and a socialist society? Was there a welfare consensus between Labour and the Conservatives in the period from 1951 to 1979? Was there a welfare revolution during the Thatcher and Major years? What lies at the heart of New Labour’s welfare policy? In Revisiting the Welfare State, Robert Page provides a persuasive, fresh and challenging account of the British welfare state since 1940. His text re-examines some of the most commonly held assumptions about the post-war welfare state and reignites the debate about its role and purpose. Robert Page starts from the premise that the student of social policy can gain a deeper understanding of the welfare state by studying political and historical accounts of the welfare state, party manifestos, policy documents and political memoirs. Drawing from these sources, he provides a clear guide to the changing role of the state in the provision of welfare since 1940. Each of the five chapters is devoted to a particular theme associated with the post-war welfare state, the last of which focuses on the strategy of the New Labour governments of Tony Blair. Written by one of the leading authorities on contemporary social policy, Revisiting the Welfare State is a stimulating guide to the political history of the post-war welfare state in Britain. It is essential reading for students of social policy, social work, politics and contemporary history. It will also appeal to the general reader who is seeking an accessible guide to the political history of the post-war welfare state.
Richard Crossman and the Welfare State
Author: Stephen Thornton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2009-03-30
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0857716468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGenerally remembered as a notorious diarist rather than a serious political figure, Richard Crossman's imposing presence in Harold Wilson's Cabinet during the 1964-1970 Labour governments proved, not least to himself, a disappointment. However, in this new reassessment, Stephen Thornton rescues Crossman's political achievements from obscurity. From 1955 to the end of his life in 1974, Crossman was committed to a radical scheme that promised to break Britain free from the existing Beveridge model of welfare provision and transform the social security regime in the UK. Although the scheme as Crossman envisaged it was not directly implemented, his actions did prompt highly significant modifications to both Labour and, more surprisingly, Conservative social security policy. Here Crossman's reputation as a towering figure of the patrician Left is rehabilitated as Thornton argues that in the era of New Labour the lessons Crossman learned from his project of welfare reform are more valuable and relevant than ever. Conclusion: Crossman's legacy.
Disability and the Welfare State in Britain
Author: Jameel Hampton
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2016-05-17
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1447316428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe British Welfare State initially seemed to promise welfare for all, but excluded millions of disabled people. This book examines attempts in the subsequent three decades to reverse this exclusion. It also provides the first major analysis of the Disablement Income Group and the Thalidomide campaign.
The Conservative Party and the Trade Unions
Author: Peter Dorey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-04-07
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1134921586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Dorey examines the attitudes and policies of the Conservative Party towards the trade unions from the nineteenth century onwards. He links these to wider political and economic circumstances, and studies the key personalities involved. There has always been disagreement within the Conservative Party as to how it should deal with the trade unions. These disagreements have, in large part, reflected divisions within British Conservatism itself.
The Student's Companion to Social Policy
Author: Pete Alcock
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-01-30
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 0470655658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays convey the immediacy of social policy's intellectual and political engagements with the world, and its practical applications in research and employment. They also provide an overview of resources available to students.
The Twentieth-Century Welfare State
Author: David Gladstone
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1999-05-27
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1349275255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe welfare state has been one of the most significant developments in twentieth-century Britain. Drawing on much recent research, The Twentieth-Century Welfare State narrates its principal changes and provides a thematic historical introduction to issues of finance and funding, providers and users and the role of the welfare state as a system of social stratification. Change and continuity are central themes, while the 'moving frontier' between the state and other suppliers in the mixed economy of twentieth-century welfare is also analysed.
