From Workhouse to Welfare : the founding of the welfare State
La 4ème de couv. indique :"Displayed on the walls of Victorian worhouses you could often find the words "Te Poor are Always with Us": Poverty -or so the idea went in those days- was a kind of laziness or lack of character: any person who was prepared to work hard could rise above star...
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| Formatua: | Livre papier |
| Hizkuntza: | Anglais |
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Harmondsworth :
Penguin books
C 1971.
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| Saila: | Penguin education. Topics in history
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Gaia: | La 4ème de couv. indique :"Displayed on the walls of Victorian worhouses you could often find the words "Te Poor are Always with Us": Poverty -or so the idea went in those days- was a kind of laziness or lack of character: any person who was prepared to work hard could rise above starvation or destitution. But poverty, like laziness, could not be eliminated entirely, and the poor were always with us. The people who planned our modern Welfare State had higher hopes. They argued that in most cases poverty was the fault of the society and not the people themselves. More important, they regarded it as unjust that certain essential things in life -such as health, a place to live, enough to eat, and something to live on when old -should have to depend on wealth. Such things, they argued, were the rights of any person in a society. This book traces the revolution in outlook since the nineteenth century, and examines in detail just how effective the Welfare State actually is today." |
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| Deskribapen fisikoa: | 1 vol. (96 p.) : fig., ill., cartes, couv. ill ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliografia: | Bibliogr. p. 91-93. Index |
| ISBN: | 014080188X (br.) |