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A Decent Provision - Australian Welfare Policy, 1870 to 1949 (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,707
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A Decent Provision - Australian Welfare Policy, 1870 to 1949 (Paperback): John Murphy

A Decent Provision - Australian Welfare Policy, 1870 to 1949 (Paperback)

John Murphy

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A Decent Provision is a narrative history of how and why Australia built a distinctive welfare regime in the period from the 1870s to 1949. At the beginning of this period, the Australian colonies were belligerently insisting they must not have a Poor Law, yet had reproduced many of the systems of charitable provision in Britain. By the start of the twentieth century, a combination of extended suffrage, basic wage regulation and the aged pension had led to a reputation as a 'social laboratory'. And yet half a century later, Australia was a 'welfare laggard' and the Labor Party's welfare state of the mid-1940s was a relatively modest and parsimonious construction. Models of welfare based on social insurance had been vigorously rejected, and the Australian system continued on a path of highly residual, targeted welfare payments. The book explains this curious and halting trajectory, showing how choices made in earlier decades constrained what could be done, and what could be imagined. Based on extensive new research from a variety of primary sources it makes a significant contribution to general historical debates, as well as to the field of comparative social policy.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 2016
First published: 2011
Authors: John Murphy
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-26829-6
Categories: Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Private, property, family law > Property, real estate, land & tenancy law
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
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LSN: 1-138-26829-1
Barcode: 9781138268296

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