SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY PRIZE 2018 LONGLISTED FOR
THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 'Makes a gripping human story out of the
wisest and most progressive policy achievement of any government in
the history of the world ... the welfare state deserves books this
good' Stuart Maconie, New Statesman, Books of the Year 'A brilliant
book, full of little revelations' Jon Cruddas, Prospect 'Carefully
argued, deftly balanced and wittily written, with countless lovely
details' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times A landmark book from a
remarkable new historian, on a subject that has never been more
important - or imperilled Today, everybody seems to agree that
something has gone badly wrong with the British welfare state. In
the midst of economic crisis, politicians and commentators talk
about benefits as a lifestyle choice, and of 'skivers' living off
hard-working 'strivers' as they debate what a welfare state fit for
the twenty-first century might look like. This major new history
tells the story of one the greatest transformations in British
intellectual, social and political life: the creation of the
welfare state, from the Victorian workhouse, where you had to be
destitute to receive help, to a moment just after the Second World
War, when government embraced responsibilities for people's
housing, education, health and family life, a commitment that was
unimaginable just a century earlier. Though these changes were
driven by developments in different and sometimes unexpected
currents in British life, they were linked by one over-arching
idea: that through rational and purposeful intervention, government
can remake society. It was an idea that, during the early twentieth
century, came to inspire people across the political spectrum. In
exploring this extraordinary transformation, Bread for All explores
and challenges our assumptions about what the welfare state was
originally for, and the kinds of people who were involved in
creating it. In doing so, it asks what the idea continues to mean
for us today.
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