Peter Jenkins on the death of the Welfare State
Peter Jenkins, 2 May 1985
Founders of the Welfare State
edited by Paul Barker.
Gower, 138 pp., £14.95, February 1985,0 435 82060 5 Show More
edited by Paul Barker.
Gower, 138 pp., £14.95, February 1985,
The Affluent Society
by John Kenneth Galbraith.
Deutsch, 291 pp., £9.95, February 1985,0 233 97771 6 Show More
by John Kenneth Galbraith.
Deutsch, 291 pp., £9.95, February 1985,
“... it lies in conscience about poverty – social conscience reinforced by patrician prudence. Paul Barker’s collection of essays shows how eclectic were the founders of the Welfare State. It is scarcely worth disputing the paternity claims between the Asquith government of 1905-1914 and the Attlee government of 1945-1951. War and coalition were also its ... ”