TY  - BOOK
AU  - Renwick, Chris,
TI  - Bread for all: the origins of the welfare state 
SN  - 9780141980355 (pbk.) :
AV  - HN400.W4 R4 2018
U1  - 361.65 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - UK
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Welfare state
KW  - Great Britain
N1  - Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2017; Includes index; Specialized
N2  - Today, everybody seems to agree that something has gone badly wrong with the British welfare state. In the midst of economic crisis, politicians and commentators talk about benefits as a lifestyle choice, and of 'skivers' living off hard-working 'strivers' as they debate what a welfare state fit for the 21st century might look like. This major new history tells the story of one of the greatest transformations in British intellectual, social and political life: the creation of the welfare state, from the Victorian workhouse, where you had to be destitute to receive help, to a moment just after the Second World War, when government embraced responsibilities for people's housing, education, health and family life, a commitment that was unimaginable just a century earlier
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