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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450898403321

Autore

Page Robert

Titolo

Revisiting the Welfare State [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Maidenhead, : McGraw-Hill Education, 2007

ISBN

1-281-33099-X

0-335-23498-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Disciplina

361.65

361.650941

Soggetti

Electronic books

Welfare state

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Half title; Series editor; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Further Rrading; The impact of war on the 'Home' Front, the coalition government and the Welfare State; Revisiting the Labour Governments 1945-1951: towards a Democratic Socialist Welfare State and society?; Revisiting the Welfare State from 1951-1979: an era of consensus in social policy?; Revisiting the Conservative welfare 'revolution': the Thatcher and Major years 1979-1997; Revisiting New Labour and the Welfare State

BibliographyIndex; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

What 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? This title provides an account of the British welfare state after 1940. It re-examines commonly held assumptions about the post-war welfare state.