Since 2010 the UK has enacted radical welfare reforms that have led to greater poverty, homelessness, indebtedness, and foodbank use. It has diverged from other
How did Britain transform itself from a nation of workhouses to one that became a model for the modern welfare state? The Winding Road to the Welfare State inve
This collection of twelve essays reviews the history of welfare in Britain over the past 150 years. It focuses on the ideas that have shaped the development of
This book has become the standard text on the course of social policy and social ideas in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. To the first edition Professo
From its very start at the end of World War II, the British welfare state—despite its grand promises—excluded millions of disabled people.Disability and the