The British Welfare Revolution, 1906-14
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-02573-8 (ISBN)
Cooper uses an innovative approach, the concept of the Counter-Elite, to explain the emergence of the New Liberalism and examines the research that was carried out to devise ways to meet each specific social problem facing Britain in the early 20th century. For example, a group of businessmen, including Booth and Rowntree, invented the poverty survey to pinpoint those living below the poverty line and encouraged a new generation of sociologists.
This comprehensive single volume survey presents a new critical angle on the origins of the British welfare state and is an original analysis of the reforms and the leading personalities of the Liberal governments from the late Edwardian period to the advent of the First World War.
John Cooper is a social historian, specialising in Jewish history and the British history of the Edwardian period, and author of several books. He has written books on Jewish food, Jewish childhood, Jewish professionals and biographies of Raphael Lemkin and the first Lord Rothschild. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Introduction
1. The Rise of the Counter-Elite
2. The Recruiting Grounds of the Counter-Elite
3. School Meals and Medical Inspection
4. Child Welfare
5. Old Age Pensions
6. The Webbs and the Minority Report on the Poor Law
7. The Great Budget of 1909
8. Sweating and the Minimum Wage
9. National Health Insurance
10. First Steps towards a Health Service
11. Unemployment Insurance
12. Boy Labour and Continuation Education
13. A Partially Reformed Poor Law
14. Municipal Housing and Town Planning
15. From Trade Boards to the Minimum Wage
16. Conclusion
Erscheinungsdatum | 18.08.2017 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 694 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-02573-9 / 1350025739 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-02573-8 / 9781350025738 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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