Titlebook: British Social Policy, 1914-39; M. A. Crowther Textbook 1988Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1988 policy.politics.social care.s

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Introduction,conomic crisis; and changes in the fortunes of the Welfare State naturally provoked new questions about the past. In the prosperous 1960s, historians were severely critical of interwar policies: in the uncertain 1980s these policies seemed more understandable, even inevitable.

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The First World War and After,vernment of 1918–22. During the war, the government had hesitantly subjected the economy to unprecedented controls, most of which were scrapped soon after the war’s end. Social policy appeared to follow a similar pattern, with an outburst of national fervour for reform dissipating amidst post-war cr

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Social Policy in the 1920s,abundant but still unsatisfactory interwar data has led historians to two different conclusions: that interwar unemployment was, except in the very depressed years 1921–22 and 1931–33, no worse on average than before 1914 [10, .]; or alternatively, that even the lowest interwar rate of unemployment

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,The ‘Low, Dishonest Decade’?,s a managed economy, in which the government and the Treasury were slowly persuaded into a new financial world of monetary management, tariffs, marketing boards and rationalisation of industry. Attempts at management were both uncoordinated and circumscribed, but they help to define the limits of so

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Conclusion,redecessors in 1914. In part, the new provision was simply an extension of legislation passed before 1914: insurance now covered such a wide section of the working class that many members of the white-collar and middle classes expressed resentment, especially over the medical treatment which they fo