A decent provision
Subtitle: Australia welfare policy, 1870 to 1949
By: John Murphy
Series: Modern economic and social history
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781409407591; 9781409407607
Subjects: Social policy; Public welfare; Social service; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The pauper in the new world : on not having a poor law; title: The mixed economy of colonial welfare : faith, self-help and charity; title: The veterans of labour : old age pensions; title: The commonwealth laboratory; title: "The duty of the nation" : a parallel welfare state for veterans; title: The failures of the 1920s : maternalism and national insurance; title: The depression; title: National insurance, 1938-1939; title: Unfinished business : labor's welfare state, 1941-1949.