Disability and the Welfare State in Britain (eBook)

Changes in Perception and Policy 1948–79

Jameel Hampton (Autor)

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2016 | 1., First Edition
288 Seiten
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-3511-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2016
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: british welfare state • Disability Policy • Disablement Income Group • History of Disability • Thalidomide Campaign • Welfare State
• ISBN-10: 1-4473-3511-2 / 1447335112
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4473-3511-5 / 9781447335115