TY - BOOK AU - Boyer,George R. AU - Boyer,George R. TI - The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain T2 - The Princeton Economic History of the Western World SN - 9780691183992 AV - HN385 U1 - 330.1260941 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Public welfare KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Welfare state KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General KW - bisacsh KW - 1905 Unemployed Workmen Act KW - Beveridge Report KW - British social policy KW - British social welfare policy KW - British welfare policy KW - Crusade Against Outrelief KW - Liberal Welfare Reforms KW - National Health Service KW - Poor Law KW - Victorian poor relief KW - charity KW - economic dislocations KW - economic insecurity KW - economic loss KW - family support KW - financial distress KW - friendly societies KW - income loss KW - industrial capitalism KW - job loss KW - living standards KW - manual workers KW - old age pauperism KW - old age KW - older workers KW - outdoor relief KW - poor relief KW - poverty KW - self-help KW - sickness KW - social income KW - social insurance regime KW - social policies KW - social policy KW - social safety net KW - social security system KW - social welfare policies KW - social welfare policy KW - social welfare protection KW - social welfare KW - underemployed laborers KW - unemployment relief KW - unemployment KW - unions KW - welfare policy KW - welfare reforms KW - welfare state KW - work relief KW - workers KW - workhouse KW - working-class behavior KW - working-class households N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Economic Insecurity and Social Policy --; PART I. Social Policy and Self- Help in Victorian Britain --; 2. Poor Relief, Charity, and Self- Help in Crisis Times, 1834-69 --; 3. Social Welfare Policy, Living Standards, and Self- Help, 1861-1908 --; 4. Unemployment and Unemployment Relief --; 5. Old Age Poverty and Pauperism --; PART II. Constructing the Welfare State --; 6. Living Standards in Edwardian England and the Liberal Welfare Reforms --; 7. Social Welfare Policy and Living Standards between the Wars --; 8. The Beveridge Report and the Implementation of the Welfare State --; 9. What Was Gained --; References --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 investigates the evolution of living standards and welfare policies in Britain from the 1830s to 1950 and provides insights into how British working-class households coped with economic insecurity. George Boyer examines the retrenchment in Victorian poor relief, the Liberal Welfare Reforms, and the beginnings of the postwar welfare state, and he describes how workers altered spending and saving methods based on changing government policies.From the cutting back of the Poor Law after 1834 to Parliament's abrupt about-face in 1906 with the adoption of the Liberal Welfare Reforms, Boyer offers new explanations for oscillations in Britain's social policies and how these shaped worker well-being. The Poor Law's increasing stinginess led skilled manual workers to adopt self-help strategies, but this was not a feasible option for low-skilled workers, many of whom continued to rely on the Poor Law into old age. In contrast, the Liberal Welfare Reforms were a major watershed, marking the end of seven decades of declining support for the needy. Concluding with the Beveridge Report and Labor's social policies in the late 1940s, Boyer shows how the Liberal Welfare Reforms laid the foundations for a national social safety net.A sweeping look at economic pressures after the Industrial Revolution, The Winding Road to the Welfare State illustrates how British welfare policy waxed and waned over the course of a century UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691183992?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691183992 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691183992.jpg ER -