‘For Richer, For Poorer’

Chapter 3 examines an unpublished policy document that Young submitted to the Labour Party Policy Committee in 1952 called ‘For Richer, For Poorer’, which marked a transition from Young’s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.

Le Grand, Sir Julian (Ernest Michael), (born 29 May 1945), Professor, Marshall Institute, London School of Economics, since 2015 (Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, 1993–2015; on secondment to Prime Minister’s Office, 2003–05)

10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.44953 ◽

2007 ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

London School ◽

Hills, Sir John (Robert), (born 29 July 1954), Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, since 2015, Chair, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, since 2016 (Director, 1997–2016), and Co-Director, International Inequalities Institute, since 2016, London School of Economics (Professor of Social Policy, since 1997)

10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.20217 ◽

2007 ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

Social Exclusion ◽

London School ◽

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

Social Policy and Welfare Pluralism ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447323556.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Robert Pinker

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Social Policy ◽

Social Services ◽

London School ◽

World War ◽

Policy Studies ◽

The Gift ◽

Unitary Approach ◽

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.

le Grand, Sir Julian (Ernest Michael), (born 29 May 1945), Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics (Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, 1993–2015; on secondment as Senior Policy Adviser, Prime Minister’s Office, 2003–05)

10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u44953 ◽

2007 ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

London School ◽

Hills, Sir John (Robert), (born 29 July 1954), Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, since 2015, Director, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, since 1997 and Co-Director, International Inequalities Institute, since 2016, London School of Economics (Professor of Social Policy, since 1997)

10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u20217 ◽

2007 ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

Social Exclusion ◽

London School ◽

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

Social Policy and Society ◽

10.1017/s147474641800009x ◽

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 ◽

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.

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

Journal of Social Policy ◽

10.1017/s0047279411000791 ◽

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 ◽

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.

Is the Intellectual Life an End in Itself?

The Review of Politics ◽

10.1017/s0034670500024098 ◽

1962 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 3-18

Author(s):

John Nef

Keyword(s):

Political Action ◽

Labour Party ◽

London School ◽

Intellectual Life ◽

Swarthmore College ◽

Moral Force ◽

British Labour ◽

The Subject ◽

Obituary Notice

AtAbout the time I received my first faculty assignment at Swarthmore College, an obituary notice of an old and admired professor made a deep impression on me. The subject was L. T. Hobhouse, the distinguished English sociologist and lifelong liberal. He had been one of the intellectual pillars upon which the Webbs and a few others had constructed the London School of Economics. I did not know Hobhouse well. But his obituary notice was written by a man I much admired, who was in a way my intellectual father: R. H. Tawney. You perhaps know him as the author of Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, but he was much better known then as a moral force in the British Labour party. To some of its members Tawney's Acquisitive Society, first published in 1921, seemed to offer a fresh charter of liberty, giving a kind of spiritual sanction, missing in Marxian philosophy, to the struggle to overcome misery and poverty with the help of political action.