1st Edition
Inside the Welfare State Foundations of Policy and Practice in Post-War Britain
By Virginia Noble
Copyright 2009
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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By moving beyond consideration of the welfare legislation enacted in the 1940s, this book explains how government aid was actually provided in the new British welfare state created just after World War II. Revealing dimensions of social policy that have been neglected by scholars, this study uncovers the practices of the officials who decided how welfare would be distributed. Between 1945 and... Read more
Introduction. 1. Limits and Possibilities of Social Citizenship: The Gendered Boundaries of National Insurance and Unemployment Benefit 2. "Not the Normal Mode of Maintenance:" Bureaucratic Resistance to the Claims of Lone Women 3. Reform and Deterrence: The National Assistance Board’s Strategies for Unemployed Men. 4. Paradoxes of Imperialism: Immigration, Welfare, and Citizenship 5. "Dirt, Degradation, and Disorder:" Housing the Homeless in London. Epilogue
Biography
Virginia Noble is partner at McGill and Noble Attorneys in Durham, North Carolina. She has taught at the University of North Carolina.
"A solid study that should be in all libraries concerned with social welfare and social policy. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries." - M. J. Moore, CHOICE (November 2009)
