The five giants : a biography of the welfare state

By:

Timmins, Nicholas

Publication details: London : William Collins, 2017Edition: 3rd edDescription: xxiii, 819 p. ; ill. : 19.5 cmISBN:

9780007335138

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

HV 70.

Contents:

Part 1. The pipers at the gate of dawn. Part 2. The age of optimism: 1942-51 Part 3. Consolidation: 1951-74 Part 4. The time of disillusion: 1974-79 Part 5. The welfare state under fire: 1979-92 Part 6. Retreat or renewal? 1992-2010 Part 7. Three score years and ten. Includes preface to the 3rd edition, list of illustrations, notes, select bibliography and index.

Summary: The award-winning history of the British Welfare State - now fully revised and updated for the twenty-first century GIANT WANT. GIANT DISEASE. GIANT IGNORANCE. GIANT SQUALOR. GIANT IDLENESS. These were the Five Giants that loomed over the post-war reconstruction of Britain. The battle against them was fought by five gargantuan programmes that made up the core of the modern Welfare State: social security, health, education, housing and a policy of full employment. This modern classic brilliantly captures the hopes and dreams of the Welfare State's founding period and the cranky zeal of its inventor, William Beveridge, and spectacularly chronicles the highs and lows of the seventy years of struggle that have followed. The Welfare State is intertwined in all our lives and The Five Giants is a stark reminder of what we might stand to lose.

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Stenhouse Library Shelves	HV 70 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		S04333

Part 1. The pipers at the gate of dawn.
Part 2. The age of optimism: 1942-51
Part 3. Consolidation: 1951-74
Part 4. The time of disillusion: 1974-79
Part 5. The welfare state under fire: 1979-92
Part 6. Retreat or renewal? 1992-2010
Part 7. Three score years and ten.

Includes preface to the 3rd edition, list of illustrations, notes, select bibliography and index.

The award-winning history of the British Welfare State - now fully revised and updated for the twenty-first century

GIANT WANT.
GIANT DISEASE.
GIANT IGNORANCE.
GIANT SQUALOR.
GIANT IDLENESS.

These were the Five Giants that loomed over the post-war reconstruction of Britain. The battle against them was fought by five gargantuan programmes that made up the core of the modern Welfare State: social security, health, education, housing and a policy of full employment.

This modern classic brilliantly captures the hopes and dreams of the Welfare State's founding period and the cranky zeal of its inventor, William Beveridge, and spectacularly chronicles the highs and lows of the seventy years of struggle that have followed. The Welfare State is intertwined in all our lives and The Five Giants is a stark reminder of what we might stand to lose.

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