The Foundations of the Welfare State

A. L. Bowley areas authorities Beatrice Webb benefits Beveridge Board Britain British cent central charity child Committee Conservative contributions cost demand economic effect efficiency Eleanor Rathbone employers established expenditure family allowances fear finance full employment growth Guardians health service housing improved income increased industrial infant introduced Keynes labour movement Labour party legislation Liberal Lloyd George London major ment minimum national health national health service old-age pensions organizations out-door relief paid party paupers period planning political Poor Law poor relief population post-war poverty pre-war pressure problem proposals R. H. Tawney reconstruction reform rent Report result Rowntree Rowntree's scheme schools sickness social policy social services society standards tion towns trade union Treasury unem unemployed unemployment insurance wages wartime Webbs week welfare William Beveridge women workers workhouse working-class