William Beveridge William Beveridge ▼ Primary Sources ▼ William Beveridge William Beveridge, the eldest son of a judge in the Indian civil service, was born in Bengal, India , on 5th March 1879. After studying at Charterhouse and Balliol College , Oxford , he became a lawyer. Beveridge became interested in the social services and wrote about the subject for the Morning Post . In 1909 Beveridge, now considered to be the country's leading authority on unemployment insurance, joined the Board of Trade and helped organize the implementation of the national system of labour exchanges. In 1909 Beveridge was appointed director of Labour Exchanges and his ideas influenced David Lloyd George and led to the passing of the 1911 National Insurance Act . During the First World War Beveridge was involved in mobilizing and controlling man power. After the war Beveridge was knighted and made permanent secretary to the Ministry of Food. In 1919 he left the civil service to become director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Over the next few years he served on several commissions and committees on social policy.

In 1937 Beveridge was appointed Master of University College, Oxford . Three years later, Ernest Bevin , Minister of Labour, asked him to look into existing schemes of social security, which had grown up haphazardly, and make recommendations. The report on Social Insurance and Allied Services was published in December 1942. The report proposed that all people of working age should pay a weekly contribution. In return, benefits would be paid to people who were sick, unemployed, retired or widowed. Beveridge argued that this system would provide a minimum standard of living "below which no one should be allowed to fall". A second report, Full Employment in a Free Society, appeared in 1944. Later that year, Beveridge, a member of the Liberal Party , was elected to the House of Commons . The following year the new Labour Government began the process of implementing Beveridge's proposals that provided the basis of the modern welfare state. Beveridge was created Baron Beveridge of Tuggal and eventually became leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords . William Beveridge, the author of Power and Influence (1953), died on 16th March 1963.

▲ Main Article ▲ Primary Sources (1) Harold Wilson worked as a research assistant under William Beveridge. He wrote about the experience in his autobiography, Memoirs: 1916-1964 (1986) I found him a devil to work for. The long summer vacation lasted nearly four months; in my first after joining him, he allotted me three weeks' holiday. The rest of the time I was required to spend with him at his cottage at Avebury in Wiltshire, which he claimed was the oldest house in England. All our research work was done in an uncomfortable room we shared above the barn. Early rising was not my forte but Beveridge, after a swim in the coldest water I have ever known, kindly awakened me each morning at seven with a cup of tea. After dressing, without a swim, I put in a stint of two hours' work with him before breakfast, a formidable meal presided over by his cousin and constant companion for many years, Mrs Jessie Mair.

When I started working with Beveridge, I soon found that, although he was ruthless at getting at the facts and drove me as hard as he drove himself, he had certain ingrained views about unemployment, still derived from the historic study he had made in 1909. At that time, unemployment as a recognized social factor was relatively new, although it had always been there. Indeed I discovered that the word first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary less than twenty years before Beveridge began his studies. Beveridge was the first major figure to subject the problem to serious analysis, based partly on the figures he was able to obtain through the Poor Law Commission and partly through his characteristically humane work at Toynbee Hall in East London, where both he and, later, Attlee first became aware of the 'social problem'. The main conclusion in his original work had been that unemployment was mostly frictional, seasonal in certain trades, aggravated by technological and structural change, but principally due to ignorance of the unemployed of the jobs that in any normally working society would be available. This had led to his appointment by Winston Churchill to set up the British system of labour exchanges and he become its first director.

Even with the elimination of frictional problems, as far as administratively possible, by the time I joined him Beveridge was still not able to recognize that there could be in a modern society a permanent and inbuilt under-demand for labour. Equilibrium as then understood could be maintained at a level far below the full economic capacity of the country, measured in terms of the employable labour force. (2) George Orwell , BBC radio broadcast (20th February 1943) The Beveridge scheme of social security is still under debate. The government has already proposed the adoption of the greater part of it but a Labour amendment in the House of Commons demanding the adoption of the scheme in its entirety received as many as 117 votes have spoken of the Beveridge scheme in earlier news commentaries and don't want to detail its provisions again I merely mention the debate now taking place in order to emphasize two things. One is, that whatever else goes through, family allowances are certain to be adopted though it is not yet certain on what scale. The other is that the principle of social insurance has come to stay and even the most reactionary thinkers in Great Britain would now hardly dare to oppose this.

The Beveridge scheme may ultimately be adopted in the somewhat mutilated form, but it is something of an achievement even to be debating such a thing in the middle of a desperate war in which we are still fighting for survival. (3) Henry (Chips) Channon , diary entry (2nd December, 1942) I attended a meeting of the 1922 Committee, which was addressed by Sir William Beveridge. He is a pleasant, earnest, professional little man, obviously capable of immense work. He explained the report, which surprisingly enough irritates the Socialists more than it does us. I think it should be adopted. (4) Tom Hopkinson , Of This Our Time (1982) In December 1942, Sir William Beveridge was the master of University College, Oxford. After a successful career in the civil service, he had been made director of the London School of Economics, remaining there from 1919 to 1937, when he moved to Oxford.

His concern with social problems had been lifelong, from his early days as a Toynbee Hall social worker and a protégé of Sidney and Beatrice Webb around 1905, to his appointment in 1934 as chairman of a government committee on unemployment insurance. During the first weeks of the war, in an article published in The Times he had called for a full-scale planning of the wartime economy, and his convictions had been strengthened by what he had seen since 1940 - in his role as temporary civil servant in the Ministry of Labour - of the failure to organize manpower as he felt it should be organized. The opportunity which would lead Beveridge to much more than instant fame had been presented to him inconspicuously enough, back in May 1941, with his appointment as chairman of an interdepartmental committee, its brief being to prepare "a survey of the existing schemes of social insurance and allied services, including workmen's compensation, and to make recommendations".

An innocent enough way of keeping a body of senior officials occupied, it would appear; yet from this modest cocoon would emerge a plan to establish full security for all British citizens 'from the cradle to the grave', and lay practical foundations for the post-war welfare state. This was the renowned Beveridge Report. Its author's assets for drafting the report were an immense capacity for hard work, strong convictions and a thorough knowledge of his immensely complex subject. He was also, within the limits set by his character, a skilful political manipulator whose experience of Whitehall from the inside, understanding of politicians, and shrewd evaluation of the effect of popular opinion and of press support in putting his work across, would stand him in good stead. A serious obstacle in his way, however, lay in a certain aspect of his character. He had now been in positions of authority for over twenty years and his urbane assurance of his own superiority, turning rapidly to irritation were he in any way challenged, alienated many of those whose backing he most needed. Indeed the hostility which his manner provoked might well have destroyed the effect of all his valuable work, but for extreme good fortune in the matter of timing.

(5) Henry (Chips) Channon , diary entry (18th February, 1943) Beveridge Day. I spent most of it in the House and watched the revolt grow. The Whips are ill-informed, insensitive to opinion and rumour: and the much-abused Margesson is now missed . . . Herbert Morrison wound up for the Government in a balanced, clever, eloquent speech which revealed his increasing Conservatism - was it a bid for the future leadership of a Coalition Government? The crowded House listened with interest and even the more truculent Socialists, whilst later prepared to vote against their leaders, were too cowardly to attack Morrison. (6) Harold Wilson , speech on Sir William Beveridge at the University of London (1964) Influence, never power, in the conventional sense - but a power to influence the thinking of millions of the urgency, the simplicity and the clarity of his solution to the problem of the poverty of Britain. For a brief moment he saw himself in a - role for which his intolerance of human frailty and even his political naivety would never have fitted him.

He must be judged in the succession of great public servants - Sir Edwin Chadwick and Sir Robert Morant - rather than a challenge in his own time to Ernest Bevin or Stafford Cripps. I have always thought - I once said this to Beveridge at a time when he would have taken it as a compliment - that he would be to this century what Edwin Chadwick was to the social reform of the Victorian Age. Let us judge him then not by the test he might in the short term have applied to himself. Let us respect him as a great contributor to practical, not theoretical economics, as one of the greatest social reformers in our history, as a man with few peers in his own generation, either in intellectual ability or in intellectual integrity, and as a man who could inspire all who came under his dominating sway with a love of work for its own sake, of the discovery of truth for its own sake and the application of that truth for the betterment of his fellow citizens. Sir William Beveridge Foundation » Sir William Beveridge Sir William Beveridge A true visionary Who was William Beveridge? Whether you can answer that question may well depend on which generation you belong to or if you are or have been a student of British social policy.

And yet there is not one person living in Britain today who will not have been touched by the work and vision of this one man. Sir William Beveridge William Henry Beveridge was born in Bengal (Bangladesh) in 1879. His father was a judge in the Indian Civil Service. William was himself a lawyer having been educated at Charterhouse and Balliol College, Oxford. He was sub-warden of Toynbee Hall from 1903 – 1905 and it was his experience of seeing poverty and squalor at first hand in the East End that prompted his desire to do something to promote social justice and eradicate hardship. In 1908 he joined the UK Board of Trade and from 1909 – 1916 he became a leading authority on unemployment and social security. As well as writing a study of the labour markets in 1909, he also helped draw up the Labour Exchanges Act in the same year and part ii of the 1911 National Insurance Act. In 1919, he became Director of the London School of Economics and, under his tenure, it was regarded as one of the world’s leading centres for social science.

He took up Mastership of University College, Oxford in 1937 before joining the government in 1940. It was in 1942 that he produced his greatest achievement – a report looking into the ways that Britain could be totally reconstructed after the war (called the ‘Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services’) and pave the way for a better Britain. It was this report that identified the five ‘Giant Evils’ the government should fight namely: ‘Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.’ It was after the wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill was defeated in the 1945 general election and the Labour Party took office with Clement Attlee at the helm, that the welfare state proposals outlined in Beveridge’s report were introduced. This included the setting up of a National Health Service (1948) with free medical treatment for all.

A national social security system was also established so that, along with the new NHS, the population of the UK would be protected from the ‘cradle to the grave.’ He did not intend that Britain should become a nanny state – on the contrary, he believed that the State should not remove from individuals the will to improve their lot by hard work and thrift, so he deliberately set the benefits at the minimum to provide a platform for individuals to provide for themselves above this if they so wished. Beveridge also believed that full employment was a crucial part of the welfare programme and in 1944, he published another report called ‘Full Employment in a Free Society.’ In the same year he became Liberal Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed and, after losing his seat in 1945, served as a Liberal peer in the House of Lords becoming leader of the Liberals. He died on 16 March 1963. “The vision of Beveridge shone through his 1942 report. His ideas were truly revolutionary. The Britain that he lived in before the Second World War, particularly during the depression in the 1930s, bears no relation to what came afterwards.

The attitude to social justice and people being the arbiters of their own hardships and therefore would have to suffer the consequences was ingrained. He turned that way of thinking on its head. His legacy is with us today. It’s been refined and altered along the way to suit changing attitudes and changes in British society, but the ethos behind his blueprint remains true. It was and still is ‘a big and fine thing” (Manchester Guardian newspaper, 1942). Working for a better society. An organization in special consultative status with the United Nations since 2012. Working with Beveridge Report Beveridge Report ▼ Primary Sources ▼ Beveridge Report The Second World War helped to create a remarkable unity among the British people. Most people felt that the only way to defeat Nazi Germany was to stand firmly together. The unity was most clearly expressed in their readiness to accept the war sacrifices imposed by Winston Churchill and his coalition government. Between 1940 and 1945 the British government contained members of all three major political groupings: the Conservative Party , Labour Party and the Liberal Party . There was a strong feeling that the British people should be rewarded for their sacrifice and resolution.

To encourage the British people to continue their fight against the axis powers, the government promised reforms that would create a more equal society. The first of these was the 1944 Education Act . This measure raised the school leaving age to 15 and provided free secondary education for all children. The British government also asked Sir William Beveridge to write a report on the best ways of helping people on low incomes. In December 1942 Beveridge published a report that proposed that all people of working age should pay a weekly contribution. In return, benefits would be paid to people who were sick, unemployed, retired or widowed. Beveridge argued that this system would provide a minimum standard of living "below which no one should be allowed to fall". These measures were eventually introduced by the Labour Government that was elected in 1945. Sir William Beveridge , a member of the Liberal Party , was elected to the House of Commons in 1944. The following year the new Labour Government began the process of implementing Beveridge's proposals that provided the basis of the modern welfare state.

(1) Harold Wilson , Memoirs: 1916-1964 (1986) They underestimated their Beveridge. With only a small staff to help him, he produced one of the greatest and most revolutionary documents in our social history. He certainly was not guilty of underselling his achievement. When he produced his report a little over a year later, he said modestly to me: This is the greatest advance in our history. There can be no turning back. From now on Beveridge is not the name of a man; it is the name of a way of life and not only for Britain, but for the whole civilized world.' He had presented his detractors with a highly embarrassing, forward-looking report, rapidly accepted as a blueprint for post-war Britain. It was seized on in Parliament. He became, for the first time, not a Whitehall expert, but a national figure, in some way the harbinger of the kind of postwar world people wanted to see. Public opinion forced the adoption of his report by Parliament. Beveridge was an administrative genius, probably without parallel in this century.

Set him a problem - food rationing in the First World War; the call-up and fuel rationing in the Second World War - and he would retire to a small room and produce an answer. But as a practical administrator he was a disaster, because of his arrogance and rudeness to those appointed to work with him and his total inability to delegate. The few research assistants, including the present writer, who stayed with him, biting the bullet, found him inspiring and constructive in research, impossible in personal relations. (2) George Orwell , BBC radio broadcast (20th February 1943) The Beveridge scheme of social security is still under debate. The government has already proposed the adoption of the greater part of it but a Labour amendment in the House of Commons demanding the adoption of the scheme in its entirety received as many as 117 votes have spoken of the Beveridge scheme in earlier news commentaries and don't want to detail its provisions again I merely mention the debate now taking place in order to emphasise two things. One is, that whatever else goes through, family allowances are certain to be adopted though it is not yet certain on what scale.

The other is that the principle of social insurance has come to stay and even the most reactionary thinkers in Great Britain would now hardly dare to oppose this. The Beveridge scheme may ultimately be adopted in the somewhat mutilated form, but it is something of an achievement even to be debating such a thing in the middle of a desperate war in which we are still fighting for survival. (3) The Picture Post (February, 1943) The House of Commons has said its say. It has not precisely rejected the Beveridge Report - indeed, so far as words go, it gave it a kind of welcome. It has not even quite killed the Report. It has done something different. It has filleted it. It has taken out the backbone and the bony structure. It has added up the portions that are left - and assured us that they amount to 70%. Sixteen portions out of twenty-three by the Herbert Morrison reckoning - and the only proviso attached is that none of these portions is quite definitely and finally guaranteed.

The opponents of the Report - from Sir John Anderson all the way down to Sir Herbert Williams - spoke as though the basis of the Report were an attempt to cadge money off the rich on behalf of the not entirely deserving poor. Yes. They might be willing to give something. They recognized the justice of the claim. But not all that was asked. And certainly not now. And, above all, they could not make promises for the future. Sir Arnold Gridley wondered "how want is to be defined. Can it necessarily be met by any specific monetary sum? The family of a hard-working and thrifty man can live without want, perhaps on £3 a week, whereas the family of a man who misuses his money or spends it on drink or gambling, may be very hard put to it if his wages are £5 or £6 a week." The fear that small children or old age pensioners may take to drink or gambling is a very real one to large sections of the Conservative Party. Sir lan Fraser congratulated the Chancellor on having "done a most difficult thing".

He had called the House back "from the fancy fairyland in which it loves to indulge, to reality, and thereby rendered a great service to us all." Further on in his speech Sir LAN carried misrepresentation to the pitch of mania. Objecting to Sir William's plan to make insurance compulsory and national, so as to cut the cost of collection to a fraction, he declared that Sir William's object in doing this was "to steal a capital asset so as to get some revenue for his scheme". Finally, Sir Herbert Williams let out of his own private bag the largest cat released on the floor of the House of Commons since Baldwin explained why he had to fight the 1935 election on a lie. He did it with the words "If the scheme is postponed until six months after the termination of hostilities the then House of Commons will reject it by a very large majority." Exactly. If we don't get the foundations of a new Britain laid while the war is on, we shall never get them laid at all. Sir Herbert Williams and others of the same kind - or nearly the same kind - will see to that. For so huge an indiscretion the Conservative Party should un-knight Sir Herbert instantly.

These snivelling objections are quoted for one purpose only: to show the low level at which the opponents of the Report chose to conduct the battle. They fought it on the Poor Law level, the three halfpenny, ninepence-for-fourpence, Kingsley Wood and Means Test level. The common people of this country were asking for more than their directors and controllers chose to give them. They could get back where they belonged, and say thank-you the mercies were no smaller. (4) German News Service (17th February, 1943) The Beveridge Plan was given so much publicity for the sole purpose of demonstrating to the world Great Britain's claim to leadership in the social sphere. In Europe there has been nothing but laughter at this attempt. It now transpires that the whole Beveridge humbug has feet of clay. The wine of enthusiasm of the British leftists has been watered down by insurance experts, doctors, pensioned officers and big businessmen. Nothing will remain of the comprehensive social scheme but the ensuring of a State grant for the veterinary treatment of cats and dogs. (5) Henry (Chips) Channon , diary entry (18th February, 1943) Beveridge Day.

I spent most of it in the House and watched the revolt grow. The Whips are ill-informed, insensitive to opinion and rumour: and the much-abused Margesson is now missed . . . Herbert Morrison wound up for the Government in a balanced, clever, eloquent speech which revealed his increasing Conservatism - was it a bid for the future leadership of a Coalition Government? The crowded House listened with interest and even the more truculent Socialists, whilst later prepared to vote against their leaders, were too cowardly to attack Morrison. (6) Tom Hopkinson , Of This Our Time (1982) In December 1942, Sir William Beveridge was the master of University College, Oxford. After a successful career in the civil service, he had been made director of the London School of Economics, remaining there from 1919 to 1937, when he moved to Oxford. His concern with social problems had been lifelong, from his early days as a Toynbee Hall social worker and a protégé of Sidney and Beatrice Webb around 1905, to his appointment in 1934 as chairman of a government committee on unemployment insurance.

During the first weeks of the war, in an article published in The Times he had called for a full-scale planning of the wartime economy, and his convictions had been strengthened by what he had seen since 1940 - in his role as temporary civil servant in the Ministry of Labour - of the failure to organize manpower as he felt it should be organized. The opportunity which would lead Beveridge to much more than instant fame had been presented to him inconspicuously enough, back in May 1941, with his appointment as chairman of an interdepartmental committee, its brief being to prepare "a survey of the existing schemes of social insurance and allied services, including workmen's compensation, and to make recommendations". An innocent enough way of keeping a body of senior officials occupied, it would appear; yet from this modest cocoon would emerge a plan to establish full security for all British citizens 'from the cradle to the grave', and lay practical foundations for the postwar welfare state. This was the renowned Beveridge Report. Its author's assets for drafting the report were an immense capacity for hard work, strong convictions and a thorough knowledge of his immensely complex subject.

He was also, within the limits set by his character, a skilful political manipulator whose experience of Whitehall from the inside, understanding of politicians, and shrewd evaluation of the effect of popular opinion and of press support in putting his work across, would stand him in good stead. A serious obstacle in his way, however, lay in a certain aspect of his character. He had now been in positions of authority for over twenty years and his urbane assurance of his own superiority, turning rapidly to irritation were he in any way challenged, alienated many of those whose backing he most needed. Indeed the hostility which his manner provoked might well have destroyed the effect of all his valuable work, but for extreme good fortune in the matter of timing. William Henry Beveridge facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about William Henry Beveridge WORKS BY BEVERIDGE William Henry Beveridge, Baron Beveridge (1879–1963), creator of Britain’s post-World War II social security system, was born in Bengal.

He was the son of Henry Beveridge of the Indian Civil Service, from whom, presumably, he learned to be a good administrator; one of the most human of Beveridge’s books is the biography of his parents, published in 1947 under the title India Called Them. He came to England at an early age and was educated at the Charterhouse School and at Balliol College, Oxford. At Oxford his early studies in mathematics and classics were equally distinguished, and in 1902 he secured a first-class degree in the latter. He was elected to the Stowell civil law fellowship at University College, Oxford, which he held from 1902 to 1909, taking a Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 1904. From 1903 to 1905 he was also subwarden of Toynbee Hall in Whitechapel, an industrial section of London, where he acquired his first insight into the problems of modern society. At this time he also met Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Although at first they did not get on very well, later, when the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws was appointed in 1905, Mrs.

Webb enrolled Beveridge in the ranks of the assistant inquirers who helped her to produce, in 1909, the famous Minority Report, with its detailed scheme for what subsequently came to be called social security. Just prior to the issue of the Report, Beveridge published his first major work, Unemployment:A Problem of Industry (1909), which established him as an economist of parts. The Webbs having introduced him to Winston Churchill, then president of the Board of Trade, Beveridge entered this department in 1908, and the following year he was made director of the newly formed system of labor exchanges. For the next ten years Beveridge was a civil servant; he went to the new Ministry of Munitions in 1915 and to the Ministry of Food the following year, becoming permanent secretary in 1919. In both these posts he was assisted by his cousin Janet (Jessy) Mair as personal secretary; she continued to serve him in that capacity long after he left the civil service, and in 1942, after the death of her first husband, they were married.

When World War i ended and the wartime ministries were dissolved, the Webbs, seeking a vigorous director to succeed William Pember Reeves at the London School of Economics, invited Beveridge to take on the job. He accepted, and during the 18 years of his administration, from 1919 to 1937, he succeeded in greatly expanding the scope of work and increasing the physical facilities at the school. He was not, however, always so successful in his personal relations. The student body, which had a distinctly radical tendency, sometimes resented his disciplinary methods, and he had several brushes with one of the most distinguished members of his staff, Harold Laski. In 1937 he left the school in order to become master of University College, Oxford. Until World War n Beveridge was known mainly as a competent economist and statistician; the first volume of a large study called Prices and Wages in England, edited by him, appeared in 1939. With World War n his opportunity came. In 1941 he was appointed chairman of the Inter-departmental Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services.

This was in fact a one-man operation; the civil servants on the committee were no more than investigators who took instructions from the chairman. The following year brought the result of the committee’s work, the Beveridge Report, which was an instant popular success and carried the name of Beveridge to millions, in and out of the armed services. The refusal of the government to declare unequivocally in its favor produced the only sizable antigovernment vote between 1940 and 1945. The report contributed in no small degree to the Labour party’s victory in 1945, after which it was implemented by the Labour government’s social legislation. The Beveridge Report sought, as had Beatrice Webb 33 years earlier, to protect the individual against the poverty and destitution caused by the principal hazards of modern life. Its main differences from the earlier scheme were that it accepted the contributory principle, which had become part of the state insurance system, and that it did not deal with the prevention of unemployment.

(Beveridge tackled the problem of unemployment in a subsequent book, Full Employment in a Free Society, 1944.) The report was an extremely competent piece of work, but its success was due as much to its timeliness as to its competence. The two other reports in which Beveridge had a part, one on fuel rationing (1942a) and one on the future of broad-casting, were not so impressive, and they were not put into effect. In 1944 a by-election at Berwick-on-Tweed returned Beveridge triumphantly to Parliament as a Liberal, but when he stood as an independent in the following year he was heavily defeated. The local electorate preferred to vote for the candidate of the Labour party, which was pledged to introduce social security. Greatly disappointed, he accepted a peerage; he had resigned the mastership of his college on his election to Parliament. Later he took on the chairmanship of Aycliffe and Peterlee, two of the “new towns” set up under Labour government legislation; these were in the northeast, where he actually lived for a while.

Beveridge wrote many articles in various journals, took a vigorous part in debate in the House of Lords, and in 1953 published a volume of autobiography, Power and Influence. Margaret Cole WORKS BY BEVERIDGE (1909) 1930 Unemployment: A Problem of Industry (1909 and 1930). New ed. London and New York: Longmans. 1939 Prices and Wages in England From the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century. New York and London: Long-mans. → Beveridge was the senior author. 1942a Fuel Rationing: Report by Sir William Beveridge, K.C.B., to the President of the Board of Trade. Papers by Command, Cmd. 6352. London: H.M. Stationery Office. 1942b Great Britain, inter-departmental Committee on Social Insurance and Allied ServicesSocial Insurance and Allied Services. Report by Sir William Beveridge. London: H.M. Stationery Office; New York: Macmillan. → Known as the Beveridge Report. (1944) 1945 Full Employment in a Free Society.

New York: Norton. 1947 India Called Them. London: Allen & Unwin. 1948 Voluntary Action: A Report on Methods of Social Advance. London: Allen; New York: Macmillan. (1953) 1955 Power and Influence. New York: Beech-hurst. Cite this article Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. MLA Prizes - Information for current students - Department of Social Policy - Home Department of Social Policy London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street Prizes These prizes are awarded to students for merit or achievement based on nominations received by academics in the Department. They are small in monetary terms but carry significant prestige. Brian Abel-Smith prize Brian Abel-Smith was Professor of Social Administration at LSE from 1965-1991. One of the most renowned figures in post-1945 social administration, Brian Abel Smith first came to prominence with his incisive analysis for the Guillebaud enquiry into the cost of the national health service (with Richard Titmuss). As a consultant to the World Health Organisation and other institutions, he travelled to many countries advising on matters relating to health economics.

Prizes for best performance in both examinations and the dissertation are awarded in his memory for each of the following programmes: MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing MSc Health, Population and Society MSc International Health Policy MSc International Health Policy (Health Economics) Charles Mostyn Lloyd Memorial Prize Charles Mostyn Lloyd was Head of the Department of Social Administration from 1922-1944. A prize is awarded in his memory for outstanding performance at MSc level. Christie Exhibition The Christie Exhibition is awarded in memory of Mary Elizabeth Christie, a former lecturer in the Department of Social Science. It is awarded for achievement by a student in the Department of Social Policy. Delia Ashworth Prize Mary Isabel Ashworth (known as Delia) studied social science at LSE from 1936-1938. She kindly bequeathed a sum of money to the School and an award was established in her memory. In view of Ms Ashworth's particular interest in social work, this prize is awarded for outstanding performance in an MSc programme by a student likely to pursue a career in this field. Janet Beveridge Awards The Janet Beveridge awards were established by Lord Beveridge in memory of his wife.

William Henry Beveridge was Director of LSE from 1919-1937, a period of tremendous growth for the School. Beveridge's directorship was responsible for the School's recognition during the 1930s as one of the world's leading social science centres. Outside academia, Beveridge's career was diverse. His most famous contribution to society is the Beveridge Report (officially, the Social Insurance and Allied Services Report) of 1942, the basis of the 1945-1951 Labour Government's legislation program for social reform. Two prizes are awarded each year for conspicuous achievement in (a) final examinations and (b) first or second year examinations in a BSc programme. Loch Exhibition The Loch Exhibitions were founded by a private benefactor in memory of Sir Charles Loch who spent his life working to improve the welfare of the poor and disadvantaged. They are awarded to students in the Department of Social Policy for merit and achievement. Titmuss Prize Richard Titmuss was Professor of Social Administration at LSE from 1950 until his death in 1973.

His publications on welfare and social policy were radical and wide-ranging, spanning fields such as demography, class inequalities in health, social work, and altruism. Titmuss' work played a critical role in establishing the study of social policy as a scientific discipline; it helped to shape the development of the British Welfare State and influenced thinking about social policy worldwide. Prizes are awarded in his memory for best performance and outstanding dissertation in for the following MSc programmes: MSc Criminal Justice Policy MSc Social Policy (European and Comparative Social Policy) MSc Social Policy (Research) William Henry Beveridge Facts LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST William Henry Beveridge Facts The English economist and social reformer William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge of Tuggal (1879-1963), authored the Beveridge Report, which advocated cradle-to-grave social security legislation in Great Britain following World War II. William Beveridge was born in Bengal, India, on March 5, 1879, the son of an Englishman employed in the Indian civil service. Educated at Oxford, Beveridge took firsts in mathematics and classics.

He then studied law, but he found the prospect of following a legal career lacking in challenge. Instead he accepted an appointment as subwarden of Toynbee Hall, a settlement house in the East End of London. Beveridge was soon lecturing and writing lead articles dealing with social issues for the Morning Post. These led to his appointment in 1909 as director of labor exchanges and head of the employment department of the Board of Trade. While in this post he played a leading role in the creation of a system of labor exchanges and a system of unemployment insurance. His first book was Unemployment: A Problem of Industry (1909). During World War I he served in several key posts dealing with manpower and food-rationing programs. He was knighted in 1919 and appointed permanent secretary of the Ministry of Food the same year. Beveridge became director of the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1919, and when he left in 1937 to become master of University College, Oxford, the London School had a worldwide reputation. During World War II he served his government in various capacities relating to manpower problems.

In 1941 he was named chairman of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services. Late in 1942 the famous Beveridge Report was made public and became the basis for the comprehensive social security legislation adopted in the following years. Beveridge was elected member of Parliament for Berwick in 1944 but was defeated in the general election less than a year later. He was elevated to a barony in 1946 and was an active participant in the House of Lords. One of the hallmarks of Lord Beveridge's work was a strong commitment to applied methods of social research. He served as president of the Royal Statistical Society from 1941 to 1943 and of the Institute of Statisticians from 1948 until his death at Oxford on March 16, 1963. Further Reading on William Henry Beveridge Beveridge's autobiography, Power and Influence (1953), contains documents, excerpts from his articles and speeches, and a selected bibliography of his published work, giving the reader insight into both his public and private life. Janet P.

Beveridge, his coworker and wife, gives an excellent picture in Beveridge and His Plan (1954). Background works which discuss Beveridge include Walford Johnson, John Whyman, and George Wykes, A Short Economic and Social History of Twentieth Century Britain (1967); W. N. Medlicott, Contemporary England, 1914-1964 (1967); and Gertrude Williams, The Coming of the Welfare State (1967). Additional Biography Sources Harris, Josae, William Beveridge: a biography, Oxford Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1977. Mair, Philip Beveridge, Shared enthusiasm: the story of Lord and Lady Beveridge, Windlesham, Surrey: Ascent Books, 1982.

Economistas - Enciclopedia Emvi - William Henry Beveridge A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I-J-K - L - M - N-O - P - Q - R - S - T-U - V-W - X-Y-Z William Henry Beveridge ( 1879-1963 ) Sir William Henry Beveridge, Barï¿½n de Tuggal fue un economista inglï¿½s nacido en Rangpur, Bangladesh. Alumno de Charterhouse y del Balliol College (Oxford), se interesï¿½ por las Ciencias Sociales y, en particular por los problemas del paro. Desempeï¿½ï¿½ los cargos de subsecretario de la Cï¿½mara de Comercio (1908-16), director de la Escuela de Economï¿½a y Ciencia Polï¿½tica de Londres (1919-37), decano del University College, Oxford (1937-45) y miembro del Parlamento por el Partido Liberal (1944-45).

Enviar comentarios directamente a: a_roldan@uma.es OBRAS (1912): John and Irene; an anthology of thoughts on woman, Longmans, Green and Company, Londres; Nueva York, 1912. (1920): The public service in war & in peace; a public lecture delivered by Sir William Beveridge, Constable and Company, Londres, 1920. (1924): Insurance for all and everything, The Daily News [The New Way series VII], Londres, 1924. (1927): War & insurance / by Sir Norman Hill; S. G. Warner; Sidney Preston and A. E. Sich; Sir A. W. Watson; Sir William Beveridge; Sir William Schooling, coautor; H. Milford, Oxford University Press [Economic and social history of the World War. British series], Londres; Yale University Press, New Haven (Connecticut), 1927. [Contiene sus contribuciones: ’Introduction’; y ’Unemployment insurance in the War and after’].

(1928): British food control, Oxford University Press [Economic and social history of the World War. British series], Londres; Yale University Press, New Haven (Connecticut), 1928. (1930): Unemployment: A problem of industry, 1909 and 1930, nueva ed., Longmans, Green, and Company, Londres; Nueva York, 1930. [Nueva ed., con siete capï¿½tulos adicionales; otra reimpr.: AMS Press, Nueva York, 1969]. (1930): The past and present of unemployment insurance: Sidney Ball Lecture, 7 February, 1930, H. Milford, Oxford University Press [Barnett house papers; 13; 47 p.], Londres, 1930. (1931): Causes and cures of unemployment, Longmans, Green, and Company, Londres; Nueva York, 1931. [Nota: ’Six wireless talks on unemployment, given during May and June 1931’].

[Otras reimprs.: Greenwood Press, Westport (Connecticut), 1976; AMS Press, Nueva York, 1976]. (1931): Tariffs: The case examined by a committee of economists under the chairmanship of Sir William Beveridge, K. C. B. [Zï¿½lle: Lehrbuch des internationalen handles]; presidente y coautor; Longmans, Green, and Company, Londres; Nueva York, 1931. [Versiï¿½n alemana anotada aparte (1932)]. [Contiene sus contribuciones: ’Dumping’, p. 125-134; y ’The possibilities of imperial preference’, con JOHN R. HICKS, p. 135-147]. (1931): Empire free trade: A reply to Lord Beaverbrook by Sir William Henry Beveridge, Published by the Free Trade Union, Loxley, Londres, 1931. (1932): The world's economic crisis and the way of escape / by Sir Arthur Salter, Sir Josiah Stamp, J.

Maynard Keynes, Sir Basil Blackett, Henry Clay [and] Sir W. H. Beveridge, coautor; George Allen and Unwin [Halley Stewart lecture; 1931], Londres, 1932. [1ï¿½ ed. americana: The Century Company, Nueva York, 1932; otra reimpr.: Kennicat Press (Kennikat Press scholarly reprints. Series on economic thought, history and challenge), Port Washington (Nueva York), 1971]. (1932): Changes in family life, by Sir William Beveridge and others, coautor; George Allen and Unwin, Londres, 1932. (1932): Zï¿½lle: Lehrbuch des internationalen handles. Unter mitarb. hervorragender engl. nationalï¿½konomen hrsg. von Sir William Henry Beveridge, director y coautor; ed. alemana a cargo de FRIEDRICH THALMANN; con una introducciï¿½n de OSKAR MORGENSTERN; Springer Verlag, Viena, 1932.

[Contiene sus contribuciones: ’Dumping’, p. 101-109; y ’Preferenzzï¿½lle im britischen staatenbund’, con JOHN R. HICKS, p. 109-119]. (1935): Unemployment insurance act, 1934. Report of the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee, in accordance with section 20 of the Unemployment insurance act, 1934, on the question of the insurance against unemployment of persons engaged in employment in agriculture. Presented by the Minister of Labour to Parliament by command of His Majesty, January, 1935 / Great Britain. Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee, presidente; His Majesty's Stationery Office [Parliament. Papers by command; Cmd. 4786; 73 p.], Londres, 1935. (1935): Unemployment insurance act, 1935.

Report of the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee, in accordance with section 55(7) of the Unemployment insurance act, 1935, on the draft unemployment insurance (Anomalies) (Seasonal workers) order, 1935. Required by section 55(8) of the Unemployment insurance act, 1935, to be laid before Parliament. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 26th July, 1935 / Great Britain. Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee, presidente; His Majesty's Stationery Office [Parliament, 1935. House of Commons. Repts. and papers; 123; 13 p.], Londres, 1935. (1936): Planning under socialism, and other addresses, Longmans, Green, and Company, Londres; Nueva York, 1936. [1937]: The Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee, London School of Economics and Political Science, Londres, [1937].

(1938): Constructive democracy, coautor; editado por ERNEST DARWIN SIMON; George Allen and Unwin, Londres, 1938. [Contiene su contribuciï¿½n: ’Planning under democracy’, p. 125-143]. (1939): Prices and wages in England, from the twelfth to the nineteenth century, vol. 1, Price tables: Mercantile era / Sir William Beveridge, with the collaboration of L. Liepmann, F. J. Nicholas, M. E. Rayner, M. Wretts-Smith [et al.], Longmans, Green and Company [Publication of the International Scientific Committee on Price History], Londres; Nueva York, 1939. [Otras reimprs.: Frank Cass, Londres, 1965; Augustus M. Kelley (Reprints of economic classics), Nueva York, 1965]. (1940): Some experiences of economic control in war-time: Sidney Ball lecture, February 29, 1940, H.

Milford, Oxford University Press [Barnett house papers; 23; 38 p.], Londres, 1940. (1940): Blockade and the civilian population [Blockade und die zivilbvï¿½lkerung]; The Clarendon Press [Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs; 24; 31 p.], Oxford (Inglaterra), 1940. (1940): Peace by federation?, Federal Union [Federal Tracts; 1], Londres, 1940. (1942): Seguro social y servicios afines: Informe de Lord Beveridge I [Social insurance and allied services: Report by Sir William Beveridge] [Le plan Beveridge] [Der Beveridge-Plan] [Il piano Beveridge]; versiï¿½n espaï¿½ola de CARMEN Lï¿½PEZ ALONSO; Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social. Centro de Publicaciones [Clï¿½sicos; 6], Madrid, 1989.

[FD 331/1734] [Otras versiones espaï¿½olas (1943; 1946), junto a la francesa, italiana y alemana (1943), reseï¿½adas aparte]. [1ï¿½ ed. inglesa: His Majesty's Stationery Office (Great Britain. Parliament. Papers by command; Cmd. 6404; 299 p.), Londres, 1942; reimpr.: 1984. 1ï¿½ ed. americana: Macmillan, Nueva York, 1942]. [FE 7/3968] (1943): The pillars of security, and other war-time essays and addresses, George Allen and Unwin, Londres, 1943. [1ï¿½ ed. americana: Macmillan, Nueva York, 1943].

(1943): Seguridad social y servicios afines; informe presentado al Parlamento de Gran Bretaï¿½a, el 22 de noviembre de 1942, por Sir William Beveridge [Social insurance and allied services]; Editorial Losada, Buenos Aires, 1943. (1943): Le plan Beveridge, Annales de l'ï¿½conomie collective, Ginebra (Suiza), 1943. (1943): Il piano Beveridge: Compendio ufficiale della relazione di sir William Beveridge al Governo Britannico, Presso la Stamperia Reale, Londres, 1943. (1943): Der Beveridge-Plan: Sozialversicherung und verwandte leistungen; Bericht / von Sir William Beveridge, dem Britischen Parlament ï¿½berreicht in November 1942, Europa-Verlag, Zurich (Suiza), 1943.

(1943): El Laborismo Britï¿½nico y el plan Beveridge: ï¿½adï¿½nde va Inglaterra? / Frederick Joseph Scheu [British labor and the Beveridge plan]; Mundo Atlï¿½ntico, Buenos Aires, 1943. [1ï¿½ ed. inglesa: Island Press, Nueva York, 1943]. (1944): Pleno empleo en una sociedad libre: Informe de Lord Beveridge II [Full employment in a free society: A report by William H. Beveridge] [Du travail pour tous dans une sociï¿½tï¿½ libre] [Vollbeschï¿½ftigung in einer freien gesellschaft: Eine zusammenfassg] [Relazione su l'impiego integrale del lavoro in una societï¿½ libera]; versiï¿½n espaï¿½ola (de la 2ï¿½ ed. inglesa) de PILAR Lï¿½PEZ Mï¿½ï¿½EZ; 2ï¿½ ed., Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social.

Centro de Publicaciones [Clï¿½sicos; 7], Madrid, 1989. [FD 331/1665] [RL 331.5/BEV/ple] [EP 37/4876] [1ï¿½ ed. espaï¿½ola, reseï¿½ada aparte (1947)]. [1ï¿½ ed. inglesa: George Allen and Unwin, Londres, 1944; 2ï¿½ ed.: 1960. 1ï¿½ ed. americana: W. W. Norton and Company, Nueva York, 1945]. (1944): Full employment in a free society: A summary [Vollbeschï¿½ftigung in einer freien gesellschaft: Eine zusammenfassg]; New Statesman and Nation [Socialist and labour thought in Britain since 1884; 1944/9]; Reynolds News, Londres, 1944.

(1944): Condiciones econï¿½micas y sociales de la Repï¿½blica de Cuba: Informe, con CARLOS MANUEL RAGGI AGEO; Editorial Lex, La Habana, 1944. (1944): Beveridge on Beveridge: Recent speeches of Sir William Beveridge, editado por JOAN SIMEON CLARKE; Social Security League, Londres, 1944. (1945): The price of peace [Le prix de la paix] [Il prezzo della pace]; Pilot Press [Target for tomorrow series], Londres, 1945. [Nota: ’The 3d volume of the author's trilogy on the main objectives of postwar effort, the other two being his report, Social insurance and allied services, made in 1942 at the request of His Majesty's government, and Full employment in a free society, published in 1944’]. [1ï¿½ ed. americana: W. W. Norton and Company, Nueva York, 1945. 1ï¿½ ed.

italiana: Bompiani (Vinti e vincitori; 4), Milï¿½n, 1946]. (1945): Why I am a Liberal [Perche e come sono Liberale]; H. Jenkins Limited, Londres, 1945. [1ï¿½ ed. italiana: Rizzoli (Politeia), Milï¿½n; Roma, 1947]. (1946): An urgent message from Germany, Pilot Press, Londres, 1946. (1946): Soziale sicherheit und vollbeschï¿½ftigung / von Lord Beveridge, Hoffmann und Campe [Kieler Verï¿½ffentlichungen; 1; 16 p.], Hamburgo, 1946.

(1946): Conferencias del Profesor Sir William Beveridge, K.C.B.: Inauguraciï¿½n de la Cï¿½tedra de Seguridad Social dotada por el Instituto Nacional de Previsiï¿½n (marzo de 1946), curso 1945-46, Universidad de Madrid. Facultad de Ciencias Polï¿½ticas y Econï¿½micas, Madrid, 1946. (1946): El seguro social y sus servicios conexos [Social insurance and allied services]; versiï¿½n de CARLOS PALOMAR y PEDRO ZULOAGA; Jus [Colecciï¿½n de estudios sobre la reforma social], Mï¿½xico, 1946. (1946): Las bases de la seguridad social [Social insurance and allied services]; versiï¿½n de TEODORO ORTIZ; 2ï¿½ ed., Fondo de Cultura Econï¿½mica [Obras de economï¿½a], Mï¿½xico, 1946.

[Otra reimpr.: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pï¿½blica (Biblioteca de la salud. Clï¿½sicos de la salud): Fondo de Cultura Econï¿½mica, Mï¿½xico, 1987]. (1947): India called them, George Allen and Unwin [Genealogy and local history; G3169], Londres, 1947. (1947): La ocupaciï¿½n plena: Sus requisitos y consecuencias [Full employment in a free society]; versiï¿½n de RAï¿½L VELASCO TERRï¿½S; [1ï¿½ ed. espaï¿½ola]; Fondo de Cultura Econï¿½mica, Mï¿½xico, 1947. (1948): Voluntary action: A report on methods of social advance [L'azione volontaria]; reimpr., Routledge [Origins of the Welfare State; 7], Londres; Nueva York, 2000. [1ï¿½ ed.

inglesa: George Allen and Unwin, Londres, 1948. 1ï¿½ ed. americana: Macmillan, Nueva York, 1948]. (1949): The evidence for voluntary action, being memoranda by organisations and individuals and other material relevant to voluntary action, editado con ALAN FRANK WELLS; George Allen and Unwin, Londres, 1949. [Nota: ’Supplementary volume to Lord Beveridge's Voluntary action, a report on methods of social advance’]. (1949): Report of the Broadcasting Committee / Great Britain. Broadcasting Committee, presidente; His Majesty's Stationery Office [Cmd.; 8116], Londres, 1951. (1952): New towns and the case for them, University of London Press, Londres, 1952. (1953): Power and influence (An autobiography), Hodder and Stoughton, Londres, 1953. [1ï¿½ ed. americana: The Beechhurst Press, Nueva York, 1955].

(1954): The welfare concept; government's role re-examined. Talk by Lord Beveridge at session of the National Industrial Conference Board's 38th annual meeting, New York, May 20, 1954, National Industrial Conference, Nueva York, 1954. (1959): A defence of free learning, Oxford University Press, Londres; Nueva York, 1959. (1960): The London School of Economics and its problems, 1919-1937, George Allen and Unwin, Londres, 1960. (1964): Essays in the economics of socialism and capitalism; selected papers read to Section F of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1886-1932, [coautor]; editado por ROBERT LESLIE SMYTH; con una introducciï¿½n de T. WILSON; Duckworth, Londres, 1964. [Contiene su contribuciï¿½n: ’Population and unemployment’, p. 241-271].

(1977): William Beveridge: A biography / Josï¿½ Harris, [1ï¿½ ed.: 1977]; ed. revisada, Clarendon Press, Oxford (Inglaterra), 1997. (1987): Antologï¿½a de Beveridge [A Beveridge reader]; compilado por KAREL WILLIAMS y JOHN L. WILLIAMS; Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social. Centro de Publicaciones [Ediciones de la Revista de Trabajo; 30], Madrid, 1990.[1ï¿½ ed. inglesa: George Allen and Unwin, Londres; Boston (Massachusetts), 1987]. (1993): Beveridge, the national minimum, and its future in a European context / Anthony Barnes Atkinson, London School of Economics and Political Science, STICERD, Londres, 1993.

(1998): Altiero Spinelli and the British federalists: Writings by Beveridge, Robbins and Spinelli, 1937 – 1943, editado, con una introducciï¿½n, por JOHN PINDER; Federal Trust for Education and Research, Londres, 1998. [Contiene: ’Beveridge's proposal for a Federal Europe. Peace by federation? / William Beveridge’]. Congresos

Question: The author of the 1942 report ‘Social Insurance and Allied Services’, who was the first Director of the London School of Economics, in office from 1919 to 1937?
Answer: WILLIAM BEVERIDGE