Social work during the Second World War and the introduction of the Welfare State, 1939–1950

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-138
Author(s):  
Mike Burt
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Welfare State

Reforming the Welfare State: German and European Experiences and Challenges

2001 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-87
Author(s):  
Bernhard Seliger
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Reform Strategies ◽  
European Development ◽  
Western European ◽  
Special Respect ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Welfare State

The rise of the welfare state has been a characteristic feature of Western European development after the second world war, despite quite different economic models in Western European countries. However, dynamic implications of the welfare state made a reform increasingly necessary. Therefore, since the 1980s the reform of the welfare state has been an important topic for Western European states. This paper describes the development of the welfare state and analyzes possible welfare reform strategies with special respect to the case of Germany. It focuses on the interdependence of political and economic aspects of welfare reform on the national as well as international level.

scholarly journals Lo stato sociale nel pensiero politico contemporaneo. Il Novecento

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio De Boni
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Economic Welfare ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
World War ◽  
Christian Thought ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Welfare State

The idea of the welfare state, that is of a state tangibly committed to the economic welfare of the citizens, became progressively established in western thought in the twentieth century. Running counter to the tradition of thought in which politics and economics were two separate and independent spheres, various political cultures pressed for an acknowledgement of social rights and the duty of the state to intervene to protect the weaker brackets of the population. The first of these was social democracy, followed by a liberalism which became increasingly "social" in line with Christian thought, through to the phenomenon of the "totalitarian welfare state", when even absolutist states elaborated policies designed to incorporate the proletariat in the national order. This book is part of a larger work intended to address the issue of the welfare state in contemporary political thought. Following the volume dedicated to the nineteenth century (FUP 2007), this book deals with the period from the turn of the century up to the formulation of one of the most consummate and organic projects of welfare state ever conceived: that elaborated by Beveridge in England during the Second World War. THE THREE VOLUMESI: Lo stato sociale nel pensiero politico contemporaneo L'Ottocento Lo stato sociale nel pensiero politico contemporaneo. Il Novecento Parte prima: Da inizio secolo alla seconda guerra mondiale Lo stato sociale nel pensiero politico contemporaneo. Il Novecento Parte seconda: dal dopoguerra a oggi

Reinforcements for the Wage-Earners’ Welfare State?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Lloyd ◽  
Tim Battin
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Wage Earners ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Welfare State

The characterization of Australia as a wage-earners’ welfare state (Frank Castles) has encouraged some scholars to argue that the Australian model remained necessarily labourist and incapable of developing in a social democratic direction. This chapter shows that World War I had a far-reaching effect on the scale of Australia’s welfare state, and that World War II profoundly changed both its scale and structure in a more social democratic direction. Australia’s federal system and its written constitution have constrained centralist and socialist initiatives, particularly desired by the Australian Labor Party. When Labor returned to power in October 1941, Australia was in its second world war, and Japan’s aggression was only months away. World War II presented Labor with the constitutional and political scope to change the foundations and reach of the welfare state to the extent no other event is likely to have afforded.

scholarly journals THE DECLINE OF THE WELLFARE STATE IN MODERN SOCIETY

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-180
Author(s):  
Kire Sharlamanov
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Welfare State

The welfare state is a relatively new social phenomenon. Its rudimentary forms appear at the beginning of the 20th century, and it was especially developed immediately after the Second World War. It was created in order to reduce acute social conflicts in societies around the world and to give citizens the minimum conditions for subsistence. From its founding, to this day, the welfare state is at the center of the attention of the professional and general public. This article attempts to define and categorize a state of well-being, but also to consider modern trends that reflect it. Particular attention will be paid to reducing the welfare state and the reasons why it occurs. From the many factors that are often considered in the context of the decline of the welfare state, here we will primarily analyze the demographic, economic and political factors.

Contexts: Empire, politics and culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-78
Author(s):  
Paul Thompson ◽  
Ken Plummer ◽  
Neli Demireva
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Welfare State

This chapter captures something of the changing social, economic and political contexts in which our pioneers researched. This is a generation that published most of their work between the 1950s and 1980s; but often lived during the 1930s onwards. Our earliest pioneer was the anthropologist Raymond Firth, and he is a prime example of working under colonial conditions. The chapter then moves on to the time of the Second World War, the post-war reconstruction, and the creation of the welfare state. Here Peter Townsend serves as a key exemplar. There is a discussion of the spirit of 1968, the emerging feminist revolution (e.g., Ann Oakley) and the growth of cultural studies (e.g., Stuart Hall), migration and Thatcherism. The chapter ends with more recent times: a discussion of how much of this work can feed into contemporary debates of transnationalism and intersectionality.

People’s War, People’s Heroes? 1939–1945

2020 ◽  
pp. 104-137
Author(s):  
Tobias Harper
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
First World War ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Second World ◽  
First World ◽  
The Welfare State

This chapter examines the changes, controversies, and continuities of the Second World War. Unlike the honorific revolution effected by the creation and wide use of the Order of the British Empire in the First World War, the Second was a time of careful control and continuity in the British government’s use of honours. The honours system focused on rewarding technocrats over volunteers, while also being careful to selectively integrate unions and Labour politicians rather than resisting their increased importance. In terms of certain social institutions, including honours, the Second World War was a period of continuity rather than change. Intuitively, the period between 1939 and 1960 seems revolutionary for Britain because of decolonization and the rise of the welfare state. However the “ideological apparatus of the state,” of which honours were an important part, was left intact during the wider “transwar” period, leading to continuities as well as breaks in the power of established institutions.

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