LEADER 03600cam a2200409 i 4500001 99112943243506421 005 20240711094544.0 008 190125t20192019enk b 011 0 eng d 020 9780198833048 |qhardback 020 0198833040 |qhardback 035 (NjP)11294324-princetondb 035 |z(NjP)Voyager11294324 035 (OCoLC)on1089361386 040 YDX |beng |erda |cYDX 043 e-uk--- 050 4 HV248 |b.W445 2019 082 04 361.941 |223 245 00 Welfare and social policy in Britain since 1870 : |bessays in honour of Jose Harris / |cedited by Lawrence Goldman. 250 First edition. 264 1 Oxford, United Kingdom : |bOxford University Press, |c2019. 264 4 |c©2019 300 x, 233 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 This collection of twelve essays reviews the history of welfare in Britain over the past 150 years. It focuses on the ideas that have shaped the development of British social policy, and on the thinkers who have inspired and also contested the welfare state. It thereby constructs an intellectual history of British welfare since the concept first emerged at the end of the nineteenth century.0The essays divide into four sections. The first considers the transition from laissez-faire to social liberalism from the 1870s, and the enduring impact of late-Victorian philosophical idealism on the development of the welfare state. It focuses on the moral philosophy of T. H. Green and his influence on key figures in the history of British social policy like William Beveridge, R. H. Tawney, and William Temple. The second section is devoted to the concept of 'planning' which was once, in the mid-twentieth century, at the heart of social policy and its implementation, but which has subsequently fallen out of favour. A third section examines the intellectual debate over the welfare state since its creation in the 1940s. Though a consensus seemed to have emerged during the Second World War over the desirability and scope of a welfare state extending 'from the cradle to the grave', libertarian and conservative critiques endured and re-emerged a generation later. A final section examines social policy and its implementation more recently, both at grass roots level in a study of community action in West London in the districts made infamous by the fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017, and at a systemic level where different models of welfare provision are shown to be in uneasy co-existence today.The collection is a tribute to Jose Harris, emeritus professor of history in the University of Oxford and a pioneer of the intellectual history of social policy. Taken together, these essays conduct the reader through the key phases and debates in the history of British welfare. 650 0 Public welfare |zGreat Britain. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109771 651 0 Great Britain |xSocial policy |y19th century. 651 0 Great Britain |xSocial policy |y20th century. 651 0 Great Britain |xSocial policy |y21st century. 700 1 Harris, José, |ehonouree. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84089582 700 1 Goldman, Lawrence, |d1957- |eeditor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88107426 852 0 |bf |hHV248 |i.W445 2019 902 kl |bs |6a |7m |dv |f1 |e20190426 904 kl |ba |hm |cb |e20190426 914 (OCoLC)on1089361386 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240710 |eprocessed |f1089361386