Bibliograph

The Conservative Party and the Creation of the Welfare State, Eric Caines

Type

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The Conservative Party and the Creation of the Welfare State, Eric Caines

Language

eng

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Conservative Party and the Creation of the Welfare State

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1347025522

Responsibility statement

Eric Caines

Series statement

Ebsco eBook Collection

Summary

This book explores the origins of the post-war Welfare State in the UK, the creation of which is almost universally considered—to an extent which is regarded here as being tantamount to a myth—as being solely a Labour Party creation. The book examines the various contributions to the development of ‘welfarism'across the first half of the twentieth century, and in particular those of Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain and William Beveridge. It assesses the effects of two World Wars; the daunting economic challenges of the 1920s and 1930s; the stimuli to post-war reconstruction; the 1945 Labour government's implementation of the wartime Coalition Government's post-Beveridge conclusions; and the Conservative Party's attitude after 1945 to Labour's legislative programme. The book invites the reader to accept that, taking developments over the half-century as a whole, the greater share of the credit for the creation of a welfare state belongs to the Conservative Party.--, Provided by Publisher

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