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A Duty of Care - Britain Before and After Covid (Hardcover) Loot Price: R490
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A Duty of Care - Britain Before and After Covid (Hardcover): Peter Hennessy

A Duty of Care - Britain Before and After Covid (Hardcover)

Peter Hennessy

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One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in Britain The 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future, once the immediate Covid crisis has passed? In A Duty of Care, Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before covid) and AC (after covid). He looks back to Sir William Beveridge's classic identification of the 'five giants' against which society had to battle - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness - and laid the foundations for the modern welfare state in his wartime report. He examines the steady assault on the giants by successive post-war governments and asks what the comparable giants are now. He lays out the 'road to 2045' with 'a new Beveridge' to build a consensus for post-covid Britain with the ambition and on the scale that was achieved by the first.

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Imprint: Allen Lane
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2022
Authors: Peter Hennessy
Dimensions: 240 x 162 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-0-241-49194-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Welfare & benefit systems
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Social impact of disasters > General
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN: 0-241-49194-0
Barcode: 9780241491942

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