The Reluctant Welfare State: A History of American Social Welfare Policies

1988 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 900
Author(s):  
John F. McClymer ◽  
Bruce S. Jansson
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
History Of

Living Standards in Edwardian England and the Liberal Welfare Reforms

2018 ◽  
pp. 169-216
Author(s):  
George R. Boyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Social Welfare Policy ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
First World ◽  
Welfare Reforms

This chapter argues that the Liberal Welfare Reforms of 1906–11, which created a safety net reducing the economic insecurity associated with industrial capitalism, marked a watershed in the history of British social welfare policy. Their timing is explained by increased middle-class knowledge of workers' insecurity and by the greater willingness of Parliament to act as a result of growing working-class political influence. The chapter then compares British social welfare policies with social policies elsewhere in Western Europe. Britain's welfare reforms did not take place in isolation—several European nations adopted social welfare policies in the decades leading up to 1914. Indeed, Britain was a bit of a latecomer in the adoption of social programs, although it caught up quickly after 1906 and by the eve of the First World War was a leader in social welfare protection.

International Social Welfare: Overview

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Midgley
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Topics ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Scholarly Inquiry ◽  
International Social ◽  
Academic Study

The term “international social welfare” is used to refer both to social welfare policies and programs around the world and to the academic study of international social welfare activities. The entry focuses on the latter meaning and provides an overview of the history of scholarly inquiry into international social welfare, the key topics that have been identified and discussed by international social welfare scholars, and the likely future development of the field.

From Poor Law to Welfare State: A History of Social Welfare in America.

1974 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 424
Author(s):  
Stephen David ◽  
Walter I. Trattner
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Poor Law ◽  
History Of

Historical Context

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Social Welfare Policy ◽  
Charitable Organizations ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Welfare State

The chapter explores the origin of social welfare policies in welfare states in Western democratic countries. It traces the state of poverty in most Western democracies before the Great Depression of 1930s, and states' interventions with welfare social assistance programs previously handled by communities, churches, and charitable organizations. The chapter, therefore, examines the historical context of social welfare policy, the nature of the welfare state regime, modern welfare state approaches to social welfare policy, and the market and global economies and the welfare state.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Welfare State

The introduction to this book considers the ways in which the history of modern social welfare in Britain has been written and explained. These approaches include biographical and prosopographical studies of key individuals and groups responsible for founding the welfare state and administering it; the study of crucial social policies and institutions; appreciation of the key intellectual concepts which underpin the idea of welfare in Britain, including philosophical idealism, citizenship, planning, and social equality; the role of political contestation in the initiation and also in the obstruction of policy and its implementation; and the relation of specific places to the development of welfare in theory and in practice, whether east London in the late Victorian era or west London in the 1960s, both of which districts and the social innovations deriving from them are examined in chapters in this volume.

From Poor Law to Welfare State: A History of Social Welfare in America.

1974 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 675
Author(s):  
Frank A. Annunziata ◽  
Walter I. Trattner
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Poor Law ◽  
History Of
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