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Subtitle: The Origins of the Welfare State
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780241186688
Subjects: Welfare state; Great britain, social conditions
Description: "This ... new history tells the story of one [of] the greatest transformations in British intellectual, social and political life: the creation of the welfare state, from the Victorian workhouse , where you had to be destitute to receive help, to a moment just after the Second World War, when government embraced responsibility for people's housing, education, health and family life, a commitment that was unimaginable just a century earlier. Though these changes were driven by developments in different and sometimes unexpected currents in British life, they were linked by one over-arching idea: that through rational and purposeful intervention, government can remake society. It was an idea that, during the early twentieth century, came to inspire people across the political spectrum."--Book jacket.