The Five Giants A Biography Of The Welfare State (PDF)

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Synopsis

Ever since 1942, when Sir William Beveridge first identified the five evils haunting Britain - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness - and proposed that the government do something to combat each of them, the welfare state has been the most important, most controversial, most politicized, most expensive and most loved element in British public life. Even those who seek to dismantle it agree that it represents the British state's finest single achievement. It proves what can be done when the best intentions are allied with a strong political will and, of course, the cash of ordinary Britons.

Book details

Author:
Nicholas Timmins
ISBN:
9780007102648
Publisher:
Zondervan
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2016-03-24
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2001
Copyright by:
HarperCollins Publishers UK 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Politics and Government