- Bib ID:
- 5160641
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Murphy, John, 1954-
- Description:
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- Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2011
- 270 p. : 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781409407591
- 9781409407607
- Series:
- Modern Economic and Social History.
- Summary:
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This book is a narrative history of how and why Australia built a distinctive welfare regime, from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century. It places the development of a welfare state in the 1940s in the context of what had gone before, showing that choices made in earlier decades constrained and still constrain what could then, and can now be imagined. It discusses the pre-history of a welfare system, and how Australia went from being a social laboratory at the start of the twentieth century to a 'welfare laggard' by mid-century.
- Full contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; General Editor's Preface; Introduction; 1 The Pauper in the New World: On Not Having a Poor Law; 2 The Mixed Economy of Colonial Welfare: Faith, Self-help and Charity; 3 The Veterans of Labour: Old-age Pensions; 4 The Commonwealth Laboratory; 5 'The duty of the nation': A Parallel Welfare State for Veterans; 6 The Failures of the 1920s: Maternalism and National Insurance; 7 The Depression; 8 National Insurance, 1938-1939; 9 Unfinished Business: Labor's Welfare State, 1941-1949; Conclusion; Appendix
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
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