Beveridge Report
Beveridge ReportDecember 1942 saw the publication of a Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services, the fruits of a committee put together to consider the subject chaired by Sir William Beveridge (subsequently known as The Beveridge Report). The report was enthusiastically received, selling 635 000 at two shillings each in the days following its release, and with Mass Observation noting the queues that formed in the streets of wartime London of those eager to get hold of it. This report came to be regarded as the blueprint of the British welfare state and continues to be invoked as a way of summarizing the post-war settlement and the establishment of the British welfare state, among both sociologists and politicians. In fact, though, the report only dealt with one aspect of the welfare state: how national insurance should function to cover periods of non-employment through sickness, unemployment or old age; and the related consideration of the...
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