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Susan Pedersen: Welfare States, 8 February 2018
Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State
by Chris Renwick.
Allen Lane, 323 pp., £20, September 2017,978 0 241 18668 8 Show More
by Chris Renwick.
Allen Lane, 323 pp., £20, September 2017,
“... to legislation without the actuary’s approval.’ Watson does not appear in Bread for All, Chris Renwick’s synthetic history of the British welfare state. Instead Renwick tops and tails his book with the well-known figure of Sir William Beveridge, opening with a vignette of the great social reformer going to ... ”