Inside the welfare state
Subtitle: foundations of policy and practice in post-war Britain
By: Virginia A. Noble.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: British politics and society
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780415701877
Subjects: Public welfare -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Social policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Limits and possibilities of social citizenship : the gendered boundaries of national insurance and unemployment benefit; title: "Not the normal mode of maintenance" : bureaucratic resistance to the claims of lone women; title: Reform and deterrence : the National Assistance Board's strategies for unemployed men; title: Paradoxes of imperialism : immigration, welfare, and citizenship; title: "Dirt, degradation, and disorder" : housing the homeless in London.