A New History of the Welfare State: Welfare as Independence
Saturday 12 October
Friends Meeting House
3.30pm
The ‘welfare state’ in Britain is a myth. It is a term that was applied retrospectively to a set of reforms during the 1940s for which there was no single, overarching rationale, and which began to unravel almost as soon as they were established. As a result, those reforms were vulnerable to neglect and attack, often on the grounds that welfare promotes problematic forms of ‘dependence’ among its recipients.
This talk by Stuart Middleton will recover a lost history of thinking about state welfare as the provision of ‘independence’ and discuss the implications of that idea for contemporary welfare states.
Tickets £10.00
includes refreshments
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