Part I Looking through the welfare state: the poor and their health - the early record; "Gone too soon" - mortality and income in modern times; rent and the dysfunctional economy; sickening unemployment; the palliation of penury - socialised education, health and security since 1921; squalor - the affordability of housing; rent for reconstruction. Part II The lethal legacy: an aristocracy of social service - rent before its privatization; an aristocracy of privatized rent; from the Dane to direct taxes - parliamentary representation and taxation; the dearth and the dole - the state and the able-bodied unemployed; the English tyranny and the able-bodied unemployed; the battle for rent and welfare, part 1 - 1800-1905; the battle for rent and welfare, part 2 - 1906 onwards.
George Miller, MRC Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine
"... it is certainly a book that should be bought by libraries, and can be dipped into profitably by students and professionals looking to understand more about how and why our welfare state has developed as it has." Journal of Public Health Medicine "This book may be expensive, but it is worth the investment. It constitutes one of the few works of reference to which social activities can turn for authoritative documentation of the evidence in support of the arguements that modern governments should base public finance on the rent of land and natural resources." Land and Liberty
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