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Originally published in 1978 The Origins of British Social Policy
arose dissatisfaction with conventional approaches to the subject
of welfare responsibilities in the state. This volume stresses the
complexity of conscious and unconscious influences upon policy,
which include such political imperatives as the wish to maintain
social order, to maintain and increase economic and military
efficiency and to preserve and strengthen the family as a central
social institution. It suggests that the break between
unsympathetic nineteenth-century Poor Law attitudes towards the
poor and modern 'welfare state' approaches has been less sharp or
complete than is often assumed.
Originally published in 1978 The Origins of British Social Policy
arose dissatisfaction with conventional approaches to the subject
of welfare responsibilities in the state. This volume stresses the
complexity of conscious and unconscious influences upon policy,
which include such political imperatives as the wish to maintain
social order, to maintain and increase economic and military
efficiency and to preserve and strengthen the family as a central
social institution. It suggests that the break between
unsympathetic nineteenth-century Poor Law attitudes towards the
poor and modern 'welfare state' approaches has been less sharp or
complete than is often assumed.
Women have always made up the majority of older people: this
examination of the lives of elderly women in Britain in the period
1500 to the present reveals attitudes towards the ageing process.
It sheds light on household structures as well as wider issues -
including the history of the family, the process of
industrialisation, the poor law, and welfare provision - and
questions many common beliefs about elderly women, particularly
that female old age was a time of poverty and want. An important
book for students of history and sociology alike.
This new collection of essays examines the lives of older women
in Britain from 1500 to the present and gives a fascinating insight
into the lives of elderly women from a range of different social
strata and different times. This latest book in the " Women and Men
in History" series will break down some widely held assumptions
revealing attitudes towards the aging process and challenging
common beliefs and stereotypes. The book sheds light on the history
of family relationships, welfare provision, changing female
self-images and the structure of the family in pre-industrial,
industrial and post-industrial Britain and, in doing so, the book
can also modify our understanding of wider society. The essays draw
on women's diaries, autobiographies, social surveys, mass
observation and a fascinating variety of other sources. This an
important book for anyone interested in sociology, history, social
policy, gerontology or women's studies. Also available in Hardcover
- 0-582-32901-9 $79.95Y
Based upon interdisciplinary themes such as status and welfare, Old Age contains a collection of pieces examining old age in the study of history and places the problem of a rapidly ageing population in its historical context. Covering from Ancient Greece to modern Germany and America, Old Age features both methodological and empirical studies. It represents a substantial contribution to the historical understanding of old age in past societies as well as to the discussion about the contribution of post-modernism to historical scholarship. eBook available with sample pages: 0203021029
A fully revised and rewritten second edition of a book which is now
regarded as a classic. Takes full advantage of new research and
places strong emphasis on voluntary action and the role of women in
the shaping of social policy. It retains the excellent historical
perspective that makes it unique among its competitors, comparing
recent policy changes to pre-1950 welfare policy.
A fully revised and rewritten second edition of a book which is now
regarded as a classic. Takes full advantage of new research and
places strong emphasis on voluntary action and the role of women in
the shaping of social policy. It retains the excellent historical
perspective that makes it unique among its competitors, comparing
recent policy changes to pre-1950 welfare policy.
Based on themes such as status and welfare, Old Age from
Antiquity to Post-Modernity examines the role of the elderly in
history. This empirical study represents a substantial contribution
to both the historical understanding of old age in past societies
as well as the discussion of the contribution of post-modernism to
historical scholarship.
How has the UK evolved into the country it is today? This clear,
comprehensive survey of its history since 1900 explores the
political, economic, social and cultural changes which have divided
the nation and held it together, and how these changes were
experienced by individuals and communities. Pat Thane challenges
conventional interpretations of Britain's past based on stark
contrasts, like the dull, conservative 1950s versus the liberated
'swinging sixties', and explores the key themes of nationalisms,
the rise and fall of the welfare state, economic success and
failure, imperial decline, and the UK's relationship with Europe.
Highlighting changing living standards and expectations and
inequalities of class, income, wealth, race, gender, sexuality,
religion and place, she reveals what has (and has not) changed in
the UK since 1900, why, and how, helping the reader to understand
how our contemporary society, including its divisions and
inequalities, was formed.
The Labour Party's centenary is an appropriate moment to evaluate
its performance across the twentieth century, and to reflect on why
a party which has so many achievements to its credit nonetheless
spent so much of the period in opposition. Duncan Tanner, Pat Thane
and Nick Tiratsoo have assembled a team of acknowledged experts who
cover a wide range of key issues, from economic policy to gender.
The editors also provide a lucid, accessible introduction. Labour's
First Century covers the most important areas of party policy and
practice, always placing these in a broader context. Taken
together, these essays challenge those who minimize the party's
contribution, whilst they also explain why mistakes and weaknesses
have occurred. Everyone interested in British political history -
whether supporters or opponents of the Labour Party - will need to
read Labour's First Century.
Why has a party that has achieved so much nonetheless spent so much of the twentieth century in opposition? Labour's First Century is the only book that assesses this anomaly. Written by a team of acknowledged experts, it covers a wide range of key issues, from economic policy to gender. Their essays challenge those who minimize the party's contribution and explain why mistakes and weaknesses have occurred. Everyone interested in British political history--whether supporters or opponents of the Labour Party--will need to read Labour's First Century.
Modern industrial societies are the creation of forced of change
embedded in their pre-industrial and pre-capitalist past, forces
which have shaped their economic structures, their politics of
domination and resistance, their social ideas and relationships. In
this book a distinguished group of historians focuses on this
dialectal relationship between capitalism and its pre-capitalist
heritage, revealing the ways in which older forms - whether they be
social and economic structures and institutions, movements or
ideologies, rituals or vocabulary - help to shape new, and are
themselves reshaped in the process. The book thus develops a
central theme in the writing of Eric Hobsbawm, to whom these essays
are presented as a tribute on his retirement from Birkbeck College.
An additional essay provides a major reappraisal of Hobsbawm's
work. A number of different themes in modern European history are
discussed in the context of the interrelationship of capitalism and
the pre capitalist past. Several essays explore the history of the
working class, its ideas and strategies of resistance, in France,
Britain, Germany and Spain. Others discuss the place of landowners
and bankers in the European ruling classes, and the development of
central and eastern European societies. Their common concern is
with the power of the past over patterns of change, and as such
they are both a tribute to an outstanding British historian and a
major contribution to the analysis of modern European history.
How has the UK evolved into the country it is today? This clear,
comprehensive survey of its history since 1900 explores the
political, economic, social and cultural changes which have divided
the nation and held it together, and how these changes were
experienced by individuals and communities. Pat Thane challenges
conventional interpretations of Britain's past based on stark
contrasts, like the dull, conservative 1950s versus the liberated
'swinging sixties', and explores the key themes of nationalisms,
the rise and fall of the welfare state, economic success and
failure, imperial decline, and the UK's relationship with Europe.
Highlighting changing living standards and expectations and
inequalities of class, income, wealth, race, gender, sexuality,
religion and place, she reveals what has (and has not) changed in
the UK since 1900, why, and how, helping the reader to understand
how our contemporary society, including its divisions and
inequalities, was formed.
Available in paperback for the first time, this book examines a
decade of extraordinary ferment in ideas, and the battles about
those ideas out of which emerged the Britain of the late-twentieth
century. In addressing the ideational contours of the decade,
Reassessing 1970s Britain takes an innovative approach. It
assembles a group of actors who were influential in generating and
disseminating new ideas in the 1970s to reflect on key texts and
arguments in which they were closely involved during that decade,
and debate them with contemporary historians. It ranges over a wide
field, encompassing politics, economics, women's liberation and
popular culture. It also engages with the ways in which such ideas
were disseminated to a wider audience. Reassessing 1970s Britain
will be of interest to lecturers and students in a wide range of
disciplines: modern British history, economic history, cultural
history, social history, politics, gender studies and cultural
studies. -- .
This book examines a decade of extraordinary ferment in ideas,
and the battles about those ideas out of which emerged the Britain
of the late-twentieth century. In addressing the ideational
contours of the decade, Reassessing 1970s Britain takes an
innovative approach. It assembles a group of actors who were
influential in generating and disseminating new ideas in the 1970s
to reflect on key texts and arguments in which they were closely
involved during that decade, and debate them with contemporary
historians. It ranges over a wide field, encompassing politics,
economics, women's liberation, and popular culture. It also engages
with the ways in which such ideas were disseminated to a wider
audience.Reassessing 1970s Britain will be of interest to lecturers
and students in a wide range of disciplines: modern British
history, economic history, cultural history, social history,
politics, gender studies, and cultural studies.
The continuing under-representation of women in political and
public life remains a matter of concern across a wide range of
countries, including the UK and Ireland. Within the UK it is a
topical issue as political parties currently debate strategies,
often controversial, which will increase women's representation. At
the same time, devolution has ushered in significant change in the
level of women's representation in Scotland and Wales and improved
representation for women in Northern Ireland. That such increases
in women's representation in political institutions have been slow
in coming is indisputable, given that full enfranchisement of women
on equal terms with men was achieved in Ireland in 1921 and in the
UK in 1928.
Philosophers and social theorists have long debated what equality
is, and this book probes what this means for both those at the
centre and on the margins of society. That people should be treated
as equals is one of the core principles that underpin our society.
Britain is in many ways a fairer and more equal society today than
at any other time in living memory. One hundred years ago women
were not allowed to vote: this seems preposterous now. It is an
undeniable truth, however, that inequalities still persist today.
In some cases they seem to grow. Prejudice is apparent in everyday
life, and flares up from time to time on a national scale. From
Brixton to Bradford, history is littered with examples. This book
engages with key issues today, and engages with how far we have
come as a society facing up to difficulties of the past and more
recent challenges. It goes on to explore ways forward to ensure
that we remain an open and tolerant society.
This is the first book to describe the real lives of unmarried
mothers, and attitudes towards them, in England from the First
World War to the present day. The focus is on England because the
legal positions, and other circumstances, of unmarried mothers were
often very different elsewhere in Britain. The authors use
biographies and memoirs, as well as archives and official sources,
to challenge stereotypes of the mothers as desolate women, rejected
by society and by their families, until social attitudes were
transformed in the 'permissive' 1960s. They demonstrate the
diversity of their lives, their social backgrounds, and how often
they were supported by their families, neighbours, and the fathers
of their children before the 1960s, and the continuing hostility by
some sections of society since then. They challenge stereotypes,
too, about the impact of war on sexual behaviour, and about the
stability of family life before the 1960s. Much of the evidence
comes from the records of the National Council for the Unmarried
Mother and Her Child, set up by prominent people in 1918 to help a
social group they believed were neglected, and which is still very
active today, as Gingerbread, supporting lone parents in need of
help. Their work tells us not only about the lives of those mothers
and children who had no other support, but also another important
story about the vibrancy of voluntary action throughout the past
century and its continuing vital role, working alongside and in
co-operation with the Welfare State to help mothers into work among
other things. Their history is an inspiring example of how,
throughout the past century, voluntary organizations in the 'Big
Society' worked with, not against, the 'Big State'.
The continuing under-representation of women in political and
public life remains a matter of concern across a wide range of
countries, including the UK and Ireland. Within the UK it is a
topical issue as political parties currently debate strategies,
often controversial, which will increase women's representation. At
the same time, devolution has ushered in significant change in the
level of women's representation in Scotland and Wales and improved
representation for women in Northern Ireland. That such increases
in women's representation in political institutions have been slow
in coming is indisputable, given that full enfranchisement of women
on equal terms with men was achieved in Ireland in 1921 and in the
UK in 1928.>
This new collection gathers together the best work in social
history published in essay form in the past decade. A substantial
introduction surveys the rapid growth in this field of study.
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