1st Edition

The Unservile State Essays in Liberty and Welfare

By George Watson Copyright 1957
324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1957, The Unservile State looks at the theme of liberty in the Welfare State. Has it survived Welfare – is it even better for it? What of Parliament and our civil liberties? Does the present state of property distribution, of industry, agriculture and our social services satisfy the Liberal mind? And what would a liberal policy for foreign and Commonwealth affairs be... Read more

Preface

Book I: The Liberal Outlook

1. Liberty and Welfare

2. The Reform of Parliament

3. Civil Liberties

4. Property and Equality

Book II: Liberty in the Welfare State

5. Welfare in the Liberal State

6. The Geography of Liberty

7. Education

Book III: The Economics of Liberty

8. The Dynamics of Progress

9. Relations in Industry

10. Monopoly

11. Agriculture

Book IV: The International Setting

12. Britain in the World

13. Colonies to Commonwealth

14. The Challenge of Liberalism

Index

Biography

George Grimes Watson was a scholar, literary critic, historian, a fellow of St John's College and professor of English at Cambridge University.