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The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World, 91) by George R. Boyer; Joel Mokyr is a business book available to read on EtoBox.
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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
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- Author
- George R. Boyer; Joel Mokyr
- Publisher
- Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691217116
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- History, Business, Economics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
- The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World Book 91) (2019)
- The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World Book 91) (2018)
- The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World, 91) (2018)
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