British social policy since 1945 : /
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| Author / Creator: | Glennerster, Howard. |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2000. |
| Description: | xi, 260 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Making contemporary Britain series Making contemporary Britain. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4391359 |
Table of Contents:
- Figures and Tables
- General Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The British Welfare State: Origins and Myths
- Origins
- The Basic Principles of the 1940s Welfare State
- The Myths
- A Re-evaluation
- 2. Beveridge: Founding Father?
- Beveridge: the Man
- The Ambition: a New Britain
- The Report: Radical, but did it add up?
- The Report's Main Proposals
- The Rejection of Beveridge?
- Family Allowances
- An Unsound Foundation
- 3. The Right to Health, Knowledge, Food, Shelter and Work, 1945-51
- Citizenship Rights?
- A National Health Service Created
- The New National Health Service
- Education For All
- The 1944 Education Act
- Labour's Policy
- Children
- Food Rationing
- Shelter
- Jobs for All
- Services for Citizens?
- 4. The New Conservatism and Social Policy, 1951-64
- Back to the Drawing Board
- Trying to Contain the Welfare State
- Inflation and Full Employment, an Early Warning
- Social Services: Wasted Years?
- Conservative Achievements
- 5. Completing the Post-war Agenda 1964-76, Part One: the Poor and the Poorest
- An Old Agenda
- What is New?
- Social Policy Moves Centre Stage
- Reforming Beveridge
- Labour Comes to Power
- Conservatives Reverse Engines, 1970
- Labour Tries Again
- Child Poverty Again
- Balance Sheet So Far
- 6. Completing the Post-war Agenda 1964-76, Part Two: from Equal Access to Equality?
- Health Care
- Social Work
- NHS Reform Again
- Education and the Pursuit of Equality
- Housing
- Race Relations
- Equal Pay
- 7. Morality, Family and the State: the Legacy of the Sixties
- Homosexual Law Reform
- Abortion
- Divorce
- Lone Parents
- Domestic Violence
- 8. The Party Over, 1976-88
- Labour 1976-9: Cuts and Fag Ends
- Containment, Continuity and Tentative Change, 1979-88
- Social Security Reform
- SERPS
- Housing Reform
- Continuities
- 9. New Directions, 1988-97
- A Radical Manifesto
- Housing Choice
- Standards in Education
- Student Loans
- A Poll Tax
- Health Service Reform
- Community Care
- Another 'Fundamental' Review
- Taxation
- Majorism
- The State and the Family
- Lone Mothers
- Children
- The End of an Era
- 10. New Labour: New Century
- New Government
- New Labour
- New Economy?
- New Spending Priorities
- New Goals-Budgets and Redistribution
- New Words-Social Exclusion
- New Deal
- New Pensions
- A New NHS?
- Long-Term Care: New Direction?
- New Ways to Fund Higher Education
- Schools and Pre-Schools - What's New?
- New Communities
- New Families
- Old Century, New Century
- Appendix. Social Policy Ministries and Ministers 1940-2000
- Bibliography
- Index
