The Politics of Retirement in Britain, 1878-1948

ISBN-13: 9780521622738 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 438 str.

John MacNicol

Opis

This important study examines the evolution of the most important aspect of the founding of the British welfare state: the debate on retirement and state pensions between 1878 and 1948. The author uses much original research to describe the evolution of a social policy, and challenging new insights are offered into many areas of social history and social policy, notably the role of social reformers, the Charity Organisation Society, the friendly societies, the main political parties and the trade unions. The book concludes with a radical reinterpretation of the 1942 Beveridge Report.

Recenzje

' … an excellent, meticulously researched account of the development of policy towards pensions from the early campaigns which resulted in old age pensions in 1908 through to the welfare state … an excellent book on a vitally important topic.' Parliamentary History

Spis treści

Part I. The Campaign for Old Age Pensions: 1. Introduction; 2. The nineteenth-century background; 3. Blackley, Chamberlain and Booth; 4. The opposition of the Charity Organisation Society; 5. The attitude of the Friendly Societies; 6. The Labour Movement and the State; Part II. Contributory Pensions: 7. The First World War and the 1919 Ryland Adkins committee; 8. From 'all-in insurance' to contributory pensions; Labour's lost opportunity; 9. Neville Chamberlain, the 'New Conservatism' and the 1925 Act; Part III. The Debate on Retirement Pensions: 10. Labour and retirement pensions in the late 1920s; 11. PEP and retirement pensions in the 1930s: an ageing population; 12. Poverty surveys; Part IV. The Beveridge 'Revolution': 13. The pensions crisis of the late 1930s; 14. All-party pressure in the late 1930s: the Treasury enquiry and the 1940 Act; 15. The origins and working of the Beveridge Committee; 16. After the Beveridge report, 1942–8; 17. Conclusion.