British Social Welfare in the Twentieth Century

by Richard Silburn (Series Editor), Robert Page (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $3.25

  This thematic and historical overview provides a guide to key welfare practices and developments in the public, private, voluntary and informal welfare sectors in 20th-century Britain, outlining the dominant ideas about welfare in the period in question. It offers a bridge between historical and contemporary concerns, drawing out some of the premises of courses in the history of social policy and illuminating the social, political and economic dimensions of its subject.

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $52.17

  This thematic and historical overview provides a guide to key welfare practices and developments in the public, private, voluntary and informal welfare sectors in 20th-century Britain, outlining the dominant ideas about welfare in the period in question. It offers a bridge between historical and contemporary concerns, drawing out some of the premises of courses in the history of social policy and illuminating the social, political and economic dimensions of its subject.