The Evolution of the British Welfare State

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxii

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2. Introduction

   • Derek Fraser

   Pages 1-9

3. The Factory Question

   • Derek Fraser

   Pages 11-30

4. The Poor Law

   • Derek Fraser

   Pages 31-55

5. Public Health

   • Derek Fraser

   Pages 56-77

6. Education and Welfare

   • Derek Fraser

   Pages 78-98

7. Laissez-faire and State Intervention in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

   • Derek Fraser

   Pages 99-123

8. The Growing Awareness of Poverty

   • Derek Fraser

   Pages 124-145

9. Liberal Social Policy, 1905-14

   • Derek Fraser

   Pages 146-176

10. Politics and Policy 1914-39

    • Derek Fraser

    Pages 177-206

11. War and Welfare in the 1940s

    • Derek Fraser

    Pages 207-239

12. Conclusion

    • Derek Fraser

    Pages 240-294

13. Back Matter

    Pages 295-326

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This book has become the standard text on the course of social policy and social ideas in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. To the first edition Professor Fraser has added a new foreword which sets out the variety of approaches which now exist to the history of social policy. Each chapter has been up-dated and revised in the light of recent research and five further documents have been added to the appendix. In a new postscript Professor Fraser discusses the welfare state in the period since 1973 and suggests what its future may be in the 1980s. The bibliography has been completely revised and contains a full survey of articles, so providing a fully up-to-date second edition which offers new insights and material in the light of current research. A third edition, which will bring this classic text up to the 1990s will be published in 1996.

• education
• evolution
• industrial revolution
• politics
• poverty
• social policy

• University of Teesside, United Kingdom

  Derek Fraser

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