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Social Security and Wage Poverty: Historical and Policy Aspects of Supplementing Wages in Britian and Beyond

By Chris Grover

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9781137293961 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 14, 2016, cover price $105.00

Social Thought in England, 1480-1730: From Body Social to Worldly Wealth

Product Description: Authorities ranging from philosophers to politicians nowadays question the existence of concepts of society, whether in the present or the past. This book argues that social concepts most definitely existed in late medieval and early modern England, laying the foundations for modern models of society...read more

By A. L. Beier

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9781138956865 | Routledge, February 19, 2016, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Authorities ranging from philosophers to politicians nowadays question the existence of concepts of society, whether in the present or the past.

No Wealth but Life: Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1880-1945

By Tamotsu Nishizawa (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780521197861 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 22, 2010), cover price $110.00

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9781107569430, titled "No Wealth but Life: Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain 1880-1945" | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 8, 2015, cover price $28.99

The Social Fund 20 Years oO: Historical and Policy Aspects of Loaning Social Security

Product Description: In 2008 the Social Fund had been in operation for 20 years. This has provided a timely opportunity to not only critically reflect upon its introduction in 1988 and its operation in the past two decades, but also to place it within its historical context...read more

By Chris Grover

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9780754678663 | Ashgate Pub Co, May 16, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: In 2008 the Social Fund had been in operation for 20 years.

Medicine, Charity and Mutual Aid: The Consumption of Health and Welfare in Britain, C.1550Â1950

By Anne Borsay (editor) and Peter Shapely (editor)

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9780754651482, titled "Medicine, Charity and Mutual Aid: The Consumption of Health and Welfare in Britain, C.1550â1950" | 1 edition (Ashgate Pub Co, May 7, 2007), cover price $149.95

The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700-1948

Product Description: This study of English policies toward the poor from the seventeenth century to the present combines individual stories with official actions. Lynn Lees shows how clients as well as officials negotiated welfare settlements--cultural definitions of entitlement, rather than available resources, determined amounts and beneficiaries...read more

By Lynn Hollen Lees

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9780521572613 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $125.00

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9780521030663 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 29, 2007, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: This study of English policies toward the poor from the seventeenth century to the present combines individual stories with official actions.

The Welfare State We're In

The founding of the welfare state in the 1940s was one of the crowning achievements of modern British history, or was it? This book advances the argument that however well-meaning its founders, the welfare state has in reality done more harm than good. The thesis of this book is that Britain would have been better off without the welfare state.

By James Bartholomew

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9781842750636 | Politicos Pub, August 30, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The founding of the welfare state in the 1940s has been seen as the crowning achievement of modern British social history.

Paperback:

9781842751619 | Methuen Pub Ltd, October 1, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The founding of the welfare state in the 1940s was one of the crowning achievements of modern British history, or was it?

Social Welfare in Pre-industrial England: The Old Poor Law Tradition

Product Description: Crossing period boundaries separating late medieval, early modern, and long eighteenth-century England, Paul A. Fideler offers a coherent overview of parish-centered social welfare from its medieval roots, through its institutionalisation in the Elizabethan Poor Law, to its demise in the early years of the Industrial Revolution...read more

By Paul A. Fideler

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9780333688946 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 17, 2006, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Crossing period boundaries separating late medieval, early modern, and long eighteenth-century England, Paul A.

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9780333688953 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 17, 2006, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Utilizing work in economic, social, demographic, political, medical and welfare history and attending to developments in religion, ethics, and political thought, the author highlights the assumptions, perceptions and repertoire of relief initiatives that sustained the Elizabethan social welfare tradition until its demise.

An Intellectual History of British Social Policy: Idealism Versus non-idealism

Product Description: The history of social policy is emerging as an area of growing interest to both students and researchers. This topical book charts the period from the 1830s to the present day, providing a fresh analysis of the relationship between social theory and social policy in the UK...read more

By John Offer

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9781861345301 | Policy Pr, January 18, 2006, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: The history of social policy is emerging as an area of growing interest to both students and researchers.

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9781861345318 | Policy Pr, January 18, 2006, cover price $41.95

The Origins of the British Welfare State: Society, State, and Social Welfare in England and Wales, 1800-1945

Product Description: Over the last 200 years Britain has witnessed profound changes in the nature and extent of state welfare. Drawing on the latest historical and social science research The Origins of the British Welfare State looks at the main developments in the history of social welfare provision in this period...read more

By Bernard Harris

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9780333649978 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 23, 2004, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Over the last 200 years Britain has witnessed profound changes in the nature and extent of state welfare.

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9780333649985 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 16, 2004, cover price $48.00

British Friendly Societies, 1750-1914

Product Description: The first monograph on this topic since 1961, this book provides an innovative interpretation of the Friendly Societies in Britain from the perspectives on social, gender and political history. It establishes the central role of the Friendly Societies in the political activism of British workers, changing understandings of masculinity and femininity, the ritualised expression of social tensions and the origins of the welfare state...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Simon Cordery

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9780333990315 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 3, 2003, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: The first monograph on this topic since 1961, this book provides an innovative interpretation of the Friendly Societies in Britain from the perspectives on social, gender and political history.

On Fairness and Efficiency: The Privatisation of the Public Income over the Past Millennium

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By George Miller

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9781861342218 | Policy Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $44.95

Unemployment and Government: Genealogies of the Social

Product Description: This book follows the invention and transformation of unemployment, understood as a historically specific site of regulation. Taking key aspects of the history of unemployment in Britain as its focus, it argues that the ways in which authorities have defined and sought to manage the jobless have been remarkably varied...read more

By William Walters

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9780521643337 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 8, 2000, cover price $119.99 | About this edition: This book follows the invention and transformation of unemployment, understood as a historically specific site of regulation.

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9780521644143 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This book follows the invention and transformation of unemployment, understood as a historically specific site of regulation.

Class Struggle and Social Welfare

Product Description: For too long the collective struggles of the oppressed over welfare provision and welfare settlement have been ignored, yet such struggles punctuate recent British history. By presenting a series of case-studies of episodes of collective action from the field of social policy and social welfare, Class Struggle and Welfare aims to rediscover this 'hidden history'...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Michael Lavalette (editor) and Gerry Mooney (editor)

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9780415201049 | Routledge, June 1, 2000, cover price $195.00 | About this edition: For too long the collective struggles of the oppressed over welfare provision and welfare settlement have been ignored, yet such struggles punctuate recent British history.

Paperback:

9780415201056 | Routledge, June 1, 2000, cover price $59.95

Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Britain: From Chadwick to Booth, 1834-1914

By David Englander

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9780582315549 | Taylor & Francis, April 1, 1998, cover price $38.95

The Development of the British Welfare State

By Michael Sullivan

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9780135181843 | Prentice Hall, September 1, 1996, cover price $39.95

Charity, Self-Interest and Welfare in the English Past

Product Description: First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By Martin J. Daunton (editor)

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9780312160746 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 1, 1996, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: First published in 1996.

Royal Bounty: The Making of a Welfare Monarchy

Product Description: As the constitutional importance of the monarchy has declined, the British royal family has forged a new and popular role for itself as patron, promoter, and fund-raiser for the underprivileged and the deserving. This book-the first to study the evolution of the "welfare monarchy"-tells the story of the royal family's charitable and social work from the eighteenth century to the present...read more

By Frank Prochaska

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9780300064537 | Yale Univ Pr, November 29, 1995, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: As the constitutional importance of the monarchy has declined, the British royal family has forged a new and popular role for itself as patron, promoter, and fund-raiser for the underprivileged and the deserving.

Citizen, State, and Social Welfare in Britain 1830-1990

By Geoffrey Finlayson

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Hardcover:

9780198227601 | Clarendon Pr, June 30, 1994, cover price $210.00

The Development of Social Welfare in Britain

By Eric C. Midwinter

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Hardcover:

9780335191055 | Open Univ Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $79.00

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9780335191048 | Open Univ Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $47.95

The Constitution of Poverty: Toward a Genealogy of Liberal Governance

Product Description: The author argues against the orthodox interpretation of the changing nature of the relief and administration of poverty from the 17th century to the reform of poor law administration in England in the mid-19th century. He locates the "constitution" of poverty in the debates on pauperism which took place at the end of the 18th century, arguing that this event marks a transformation in modes of government...read more

By Mitchell Dean

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9780415043564 | Routledge, March 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author argues against the orthodox interpretation of the changing nature of the relief and administration of poverty from the 17th century to the reform of poor law administration in England in the mid-19th century.

Poverty and Society: The Growth of the American Welfare State in International Comparison