The welfare state in Britain
Subtitle: a political history since 1945
By: Michael Hill.
Publisher: E. Elgar Pub.
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Aldershot, Eng; Brookfield, Vt., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Welfare state; Great Britain -- Social policy; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-
Description: Focuses on the political processes which influenced the key reforms of the late 1940s and the ways in which those reforms have subsequently been in some respects consolidated and in other respects undermined. Social policy is shown to have been subordinated to economic and foreign policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-181) and index.