Inside the Welfare State Foundations of Policy and Practice in Post-War Britain

Name: Inside the Welfare State Foundations of Policy and Practice in Post-War Britain
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ISBN: 9780415701877

ISBN-10: 0415701872

ISBN-13: 9780415701877

Edition: 2009

Authors: Virginia Noble, Virginia D. Noble

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According to the standard narrative of twentieth-century social policy, the early years of the post-war welfare state were an uneventful period, requiring no major legislative interventions and dominated by the political consensus that the state should be the primary guarantor of social security. This new book reveals an entirely different dimension of social policy in this period, illuminating the inner workings of government agencies that were largely disregarded by contemporary politicians and have been neglected by scholars. This book considers the welfare state of the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s from the vantage point of those who decided how welfare would be distributed. An…

Book details

List price: $170.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/18/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 182
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Virginia Noble is partner at McGill and Noble Attorneys in Durham, North Carolina. She has taught at the University of North Carolina.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Limits and Possibilities of Social Citizenship: The Gendered Boundaries of National Insurance and Unemployment Benefit



"Not the Normal Mode of Maintenance": Bureaucratic Resistance to the Claims of Lone Women



Reform and Deterrence: The National Assistance Board's Strategies for Unemployed Men



Paradoxes of Imperialism: Immigration, Welfare, and Citizenship



"Dirt, Degradation, and Disorder": Housing the Homeless in London


Epilogue: The New Right, New Labour, and Welfare


Notes


Bibliography


Index