Welfare and the State

TY - CHAP

T1 - Welfare and the State

AU - Thane, Patricia Mary

PY - 2018/4/5

Y1 - 2018/4/5

N2 - The chapter examines development and change in the welfare role of the British state and the main influences upon it in the context of changing social, economic, and political conditions. It explores the Poor Law and its reform in the early nineteenth century and challenges to it later in the century; the growing role of the state in such fields as education, public health, and labour conditions through the nineteenth century; its more rapid growth through the twentieth century; and finally the challenges to state welfare from the 1980s. Throughout, the shifting but always significant relationship between the state and the voluntary sector in provision for welfare is described and discussed.

AB - The chapter examines development and change in the welfare role of the British state and the main influences upon it in the context of changing social, economic, and political conditions. It explores the Poor Law and its reform in the early nineteenth century and challenges to it later in the century; the growing role of the state in such fields as education, public health, and labour conditions through the nineteenth century; its more rapid growth through the twentieth century; and finally the challenges to state welfare from the 1980s. Throughout, the shifting but always significant relationship between the state and the voluntary sector in provision for welfare is described and discussed.

U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198714897.013.3

DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198714897.013.3

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9780198714897

SP - 563

EP - 582

BT - The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000

A2 - Brown, David

A2 - Crowcroft, Robert

A2 - Pentland, Gordon

PB - Oxford University Press

CY - Oxford

ER -