The Evolution of the British Welfare State: A History of Social Policy since the Industrial Revolution

Abstract

List of Tables - Preface - Preface to the Second Edition - Preface to the Third Edition - Acknowledgements - Select Time Chart - Foreword: Perspectives on the History of Welfare - Introduction - The Poor Law - Public Health - Education and Welfare - Laissez-faire and State Intervention in the Mid-Nineteenth Century - The Growing Awareness of Poverty - Liberal Social Policy, 1905-14 - Politics and Policy, 1914-39 - War and Welfare in the 1940s - Welfare State - The First Half Century - Documentary Appendix - Notes and References - Select Bibliography - Index