0. Introduction: The Beveridge Report: Perspectives and Purposes 1. British Social Services Pre-Beveridge 2. Wartime Social Policy 3. The Beveridge Committee at Work 4.The Beveridge Report – The Evidence 5.The Beveridge Report – Composition and Content 6. The Beveridge Report – The Response 7.Planning for Welfare – Without Beveridge 8. Beveridge Mark II – "My Goodness My Beveridge" 9. Labour and the Creation of the Welfare State 10. Conclusion: Beveridge – The Legacy
Biography
Derek Fraser is Emeritus Professor at the University of Teesside, where he served as Vice-Chancellor for 11 years.
“a concise and useful survey for those who are unfamiliar with Beveridge’s report and its place in the wartime landscape, which is clearly linked to Fraser’s own scholarly biography, most notably his The Evolution of the British Welfare State, which has now been through five editions. The book will therefore provide an informative and helpful introduction to the subject for a range of different audiences inside and outside the academy, all of whom will benefit from a better understanding of the immediate problems Beveridge was trying to solve and the aims he actually had.” – Chris Renwick, University of York, Contemporary British History
