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 scholar…
Focusing on the politicized mechanisms of welfare distribution in post-World War II Britain, this study demonstrates how gender and race determined the quality and quantity of benefits received by Britons seeking state aid. Scholars of public policy, law, and political history w…
By 1860 the dominant social outlook in Britain had changed from paternalism to a vision of a laissez faire society. This text describes and analyzes these changes, which arose from the rapid growth of industry, towns, population and the middle and working classes.
What is One Nation politics? What has it been, and what should be it be today? Since Ed Miliband's speech at the 2012 Labour Party Conference these questions have been much asked, but not so often clearly answered. Outlining the historical context, and offering suggestions for c…
