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The Winding Road to the Welfare State - Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain (Hardcover)
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The Winding Road to the Welfare State - Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain (Hardcover)
Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
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How did Britain transform itself from a nation of workhouses to one
that became a model for the modern welfare state? The Winding Road
to the Welfare State investigates the evolution of living standards
and welfare policies in Britain from the 1830s to 1950 and provides
insights into how British working-class households coped with
economic insecurity. George Boyer examines the retrenchment in
Victorian poor relief, the Liberal Welfare Reforms, and the
beginnings of the postwar welfare state, and he describes how
workers altered spending and saving methods based on changing
government policies. From the cutting back of the Poor Law after
1834 to Parliament's abrupt about-face in 1906 with the adoption of
the Liberal Welfare Reforms, Boyer offers new explanations for
oscillations in Britain's social policies and how these shaped
worker well-being. The Poor Law's increasing stinginess led skilled
manual workers to adopt self-help strategies, but this was not a
feasible option for low-skilled workers, many of whom continued to
rely on the Poor Law into old age. In contrast, the Liberal Welfare
Reforms were a major watershed, marking the end of seven decades of
declining support for the needy. Concluding with the Beveridge
Report and Labour's social policies in the late 1940s, Boyer shows
how the Liberal Welfare Reforms laid the foundations for a national
social safety net. A sweeping look at economic pressures after the
Industrial Revolution, The Winding Road to the Welfare State
illustrates how British welfare policy waxed and waned over the
course of a century.
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