1st Edition

A History of Industrial Life Assurance

By D. Morrah Copyright 2006
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 2005. This book is an attempt by a layman to explain to other laymen the purposes and processes of industrial assurance, an institution which exercises a far-reaching influence upon the life of the community, and in which for that reason the community, through its political organs of Parliament and administration, has long taken an inquisitive, critical, and entirely proper... Read more

1. The Forerunners

2. Early Experiments

3. The State as Competitor

4. The Northcote Commission

5. The Select Committee of 1889

6. The Swelling Tide

7. The First World War

8. Between the Wars

9. The Cohen Committee

10. A Literary Onslaught

11. The Second World War

12. The Beveridge Report

13. The Critics of Industrial Assurance

14. The Campaign for Nationalization

15. Thrift Today

Biography

D. Morrah