A Commitment to Welfare: the Life and Work of Richard Titmuss

David Reisman, Richard Titmuss: Welfare and Society (2nd edn), Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001, vii+307 pp., £50.00.Peter Alcock, Howard Glennerster, Ann Oakley & Adrian Sinfield (eds.), Welfare and Well-Being: Richard Titmuss's Contribution to Social Policy, Bristol: Policy, 2001, vi+249 pp., £16.99 pbk.

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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 ◽

London School Of Economics ◽

Richard Titmuss

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Richard Titmuss, Eugenics, and Social Science in Mid-twentieth-Century Britain

The History of Sociology in Britain ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-19929-6_5 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 137-160

Author(s):

Chris Renwick

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Social Science ◽

Richard Titmuss

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Bibliography of work by Richard Titmuss

Private complaints and public health ◽

10.2307/j.ctt1t8918b.30 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 225-230

Keyword(s):

Richard Titmuss

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‘For Richer, For Poorer’

Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945-1970 ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198862895.003.0004 ◽

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Chapter 3 examines an unpublished policy document that Young submitted to the Labour Party Policy Committee in 1952 called ‘For Richer, For Poorer’, which marked a transition from Young’s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

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