Disability and the Welfare State in Britain

Changes in Perception and Policy 1948–79

Jameel Hampton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2016
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-1642-8 (ISBN)

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The British Welfare State initially seemed to promise welfare for all, but excluded millions of disabled people. This book examines attempts in the subsequent three decades to reverse this exclusion. It also provides the first major analysis of the Disablement Income Group and the Thalidomide campaign.

Created during and after the Second World War, the British Welfare State seemed to promise welfare for all, but, in its original form, excluded millions of disabled people. This book examines attempts in the subsequent three decades to reverse this exclusion. It is the first to contextualise disability historically in the welfare state and under each government of the period. It looks at how disability policy and perceptions were slow to change as a welfare issue, which is very timely in today’s climate of austerity. It also provides the first major analysis of the Disablement Income Group, one of the most powerful pressure groups in the period and the 1972 Thalidomide campaign and its effect on the Heath government. Given the recent emergence of the history of disability in Britain as a major area of research, the book will be ideal for academics, students and activists seeking a better understanding of the topic.

Jameel Hampton is a lecturer at Liverpool Hope University. He was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Society, Work and Development Institute of the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He has lectured in history at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Foreword by Nicholas Timmins;

Introduction;

The Old Regime: Provision before the Welfare State;

Promotional Welfare, 1948-63;

The Emergence of the General Classes, 1964-9;

Cinderella of the Welfare State: Legislation for the General Classes, 1970-2;

The Final Days: Disability at the End of the Welfare State, 1973-9;

The Last Waltz: Epilogue;

Summary and Conclusions, 1948-79.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.5.2016
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4473-1642-8 / 1447316428
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-1642-8 / 9781447316428
Zustand	Neuware