scholarly journals Legacies of Altruism: Richard Titmuss, Marie Meinhardt, and Health Policy Research in the 1940s

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-392
Author(s):  
Ann Oakley
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
London School ◽  
The Gift ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Richard Titmuss ◽  
German Economist ◽  
Second World

During the Second World War, a German economist, Marie Dessauer, later Marie Meinhardt, worked with the British welfare state scholar and policy analyst Richard Titmuss on pioneering studies of social factors and health. Titmuss is remembered today for his role in establishing social policy as an academic discipline, and for his internationally-renowned works on welfare, health and public policy. Meinhardt's career as an economist has been largely forgotten. This was an unusual alliance with far-reaching consequences, as Meinhardt later bequeathed a large sum of money to the London School of Economics, where Titmuss worked, to help fund social policy students and research. This article documents the story of the Titmuss-Meinhardt collaboration, locating it in the context of Titmuss's last and probably best-known work, The Gift Relationship, which analyses the function of altruistic giving in promoting healthy and democratic social relations.

Richard Titmuss and the making of British social policy studies after the Second World War: a reappraisal

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Pinker
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Services ◽  
London School ◽  
World War ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Unitary Approach ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Richard Titmuss

In this chapter, Robert Pinker discusses Richard Titmuss's role in the making of British social policy studies after World War II. He begins with his impressions of Titmuss and his early experiences, and how his thoughts on the ends and means of social policy developed to maturity. In 1950, Titmuss published Problems of Social Policy, a study of the impact of war on British civil society and the response of the social services. During that same year, he was appointed to the Chair of Social Administration at the London School of Economics. Pinker considers a number of distinctive and often controversial features that characterised Titmuss's collectivist and unitary approach to the discussion of social policy and social problems. He also talks about the ‘conditional’ as opposed to what Titmuss claims is the open-ended nature of altruism and reciprocity in everyday life by focusing on on Titmuss's 1970 book The Gift Relationship.

‘For Richer, For Poorer’

2020 ◽  
pp. 77-100
Author(s):  
Lise Butler
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
London School ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Richard Titmuss

Chapter 3 examines an unpublished policy document that Young submitted to the Labour Party Policy Committee in 1952 called ‘For Richer, For Poorer’, which marked a transition from Young’s public policy career towards sociology and social research. Young left his position in the Labour Party Research Department after the Conservative election victory in the 1951 general election, and undertook a Ph.D. in social administration at the London School of Economics supervised by the social policy thinker Richard Titmuss. Responding to the Labour Party’s failure to appeal to women voters in the 1951 election, ‘For Richer, For Poorer’ urged the Labour Party to pay more attention to family policy. Young integrated a historical vision of declining social cohesion caused by industrialization and suburbanization with contemporary concerns about the poverty of women and children that built on the work of earlier social poverty researchers and the feminist campaigns for a family allowance led by Eleanor Rathbone. This document reflected a turn in Young’s thought away from the focus on full employment and macro-economic planning which had characterized much of his policy work during the Attlee government, and towards thinking about social policy from the perspective of those he conceived of as non-workers, including the elderly, the unemployed, children, and women.

Raymond William Firth, 1901–2002

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. R. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
London School ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Second World

Raymond Firth was an anthropologist, working chiefly in the Pacific, Malaysia and London, in the fields of economics, religion and kinship. Firth held permanent teaching posts at Sydney (1930–2) and at the London School of Economics (1932–40, 1944–68). During the Second World War he served in Naval Intelligence; he became secretary of the Colonial Social Science Research Council in 1944–5, and was a founding member of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth in 1946. Firth was a patient and generous teacher whose many graduate students remained loyal throughout their lives; he was an able and purposeful administrator of great integrity: no one alive can remember him doing a mean or malicious or self-interested act. In anthropology he was resolutely humane and empirical: his aim was always to convey the variety and complexity of people's experience, and to show how his theory was based on that understanding.

scholarly journals The Employment of Migrant Workers in Long-Term Care: Dynamics of Choice and Control – ERRATUM

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-231
Author(s):  
Isabel Shutes
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
London School ◽  
Term Care ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
And Control

Within the article by Shutes (first published online, 15 September 2011) the Author's affiliation was incorrectly inserted during the production process. The correct affiliation is the ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford, and the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science. The publisher apologises for any inconvenience this has caused.

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