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A Decent Provision
Australian Welfare Policy, 1870 to 1949
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A Decent Provision is a narrative history of how and why Australia built a distinctive welfare regime in the period from the 1870s to 1949. At the beginning of this period, the Australian colonies were belligerently insisting they must not have a Poor Law, yet had reproduced many of the systems of charitable provision in Britain. By the start of the twentieth century, a combination of extended suffrage, basic wage regulation and the aged pension had led to a reputation as a 'social laboratory'. And yet half a century later, Australia was a 'welfare laggard' and the Labor Party's welfare state of the mid-1940s was a relatively modest and parsimonious construction. Models of welfare based on social insurance had been vigorously rejected, and the Australian system continued on a path of highly residual, targeted welfare payments. The book explains this curious and halting trajectory, showing how choices made in earlier decades constrained what could be done, and what could be imagined. Based on extensive new research from a variety of primary sources it makes a significant contribution to general historical debates, as well as to the field of comparative social policy.
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Ashgate Publishing Ltd; April 2011
295 pages; ISBN 9781409407607
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295 pages; ISBN 9781409407607
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Subject categories
- Academic > Sociology > Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology > Protection, assistance and relief > Protection of animals. Animal rights. Animal welfare
- History > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History > United States > 20th Century
- History > Military > World War I
- History > Military > World War II
- Political Science > Social Services & Welfare
- Social Science > Sociology
- Social Science > Human Services
- History > Far East
- History > World
- History > Great Britain
- History > Europe
- History > Modern
- History > Africa
- History > Australia & Oceania
ISBNs
1409407608
9781409407591
9781409407607

