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Before Beveridge: Welfare Before the Welfare State

Before Beveridge: Welfare Before the Welfare StateCivitasChoice in Welfare No. 47 Before Beveridge: Welfare Before the Welfare StateDavid Gladstone (Editor)David G. GreenJose HarrisJane LewisPat VincentNoel WhitesideLondonFirst published January 1999 Political Thought and the Welfare State 1870-1940: An Intellec-tual Framework for British Social Policy , by Jose Harris was firstpublished in Past and Present, Vol. 135, May 1992 and isreproduced here by permission. The Working Class and State Welfare in Britain, 1880-1914',by Pat Thane was first published in The Historical Journal, , No. 4, 1984 and is reproduced here by permission. The Poor Law Reports of 1909 and the Social Theory of theCharity Organisation Society , by Vincent was first pub-lished in Victorian Studies, Vol.

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1 Before Beveridge: Welfare Before the Welfare StateCivitasChoice in Welfare No. 47 Before Beveridge: Welfare Before the Welfare StateDavid Gladstone (Editor)David G. GreenJose HarrisJane LewisPat VincentNoel WhitesideLondonFirst published January 1999 Political Thought and the Welfare State 1870-1940: An Intellec-tual Framework for British Social Policy , by Jose Harris was firstpublished in Past and Present, Vol. 135, May 1992 and isreproduced here by permission. The Working Class and State Welfare in Britain, 1880-1914',by Pat Thane was first published in The Historical Journal, , No. 4, 1984 and is reproduced here by permission. The Poor Law Reports of 1909 and the Social Theory of theCharity Organisation Society , by Vincent was first pub-lished in Victorian Studies, Vol.

2 27, No. 3, Spring 1984 and isreproduced here by cover: cartoon of William beveridge by Low, image suppliedby the National Portrait Gallery, London, Solo Syndication other material Civitas 1999 All rights reservedISBN 0-255 36439-3 ISSN 1362-9565 Typeset in Bookman 10 pointPrinted in Great Britain byThe Cromwell PressTrowbridge, WiltshireContentsPageThe AuthorsviEditor s IntroductionWelfare Before the Welfare StateDavid Gladstone1 The Voluntary Sector in the Mixed Economy of WelfareJane Lewis10 The Friendly Societies and Adam-Smith LiberalismDavid G. Green18 Private Provision and Public Welfare :Health Insurance Between the Wars26 Noel WhitesidePolitical Thought and the Welfare State 1870-1940:An Intellectual Framework for British Social PolicyJose Harris43 The Poor Law Reports of 1909 and the Social Theoryof the Charity Organisation Vincent64 The Working Class and State Welfare in Britain, 1880-1914 Pat Thane86 Notes113 Index138viThe AuthorsDavid Gladstone is Director of Studies in Social Policy in theSchool for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol.

3 He haspublished extensively on British social policy past and edited British Social Welfare : Past, Present and Future, UCLP ress 1995 and his history of the twentieth century Welfare stateis forthcoming from Macmillan. In addition, David Gladstone isGeneral Series Editor of Historical Sources in Social Welfare ,Routledge/Thoemmes Press, and of the Open University Press Introducing Social Policy Series. David Gladstone lectures widelyon aspects of British Welfare history and has held several VisitingProfessorships, especially in the G. Green is the Director of the Health and Welfare Unit atthe Institute of Economic Affairs. His books include Power andParty in an English City, Allen & Unwin, 1980; Mutual Aid orWelfare State , Allen & Unwin, 1984 (with L.)

4 Cromwell); WorkingClass Patients and the Medical Establishment, Temple Smith/Gower, 1985; and The New Right: The Counter Revolution inPolitical, Economic and Social Thought, Wheatsheaf, 1987;Reinventing Civil Society, 1993; and Community Without Politics,1996. He wrote the chapter on The Neo-Liberal Perspective inThe Student s Companion to Social Policy, Blackwell, Harris is Professor of Modern History in the University ofOxford, and currently holds a Leverhulme Research Professor-ship. An extensively revised second edition of her WilliamBeveridge: an Autobiography was published in Lewis is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and Directorof the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine.

5 She will shortlybe moving to the University of Nottingham. She is the author ofThe Voluntary Sector, the State and Social Work in Britain, 1995,as well as numerous books and articles on gender and socialpolicy, and health and community care. Most recently she haspublished, with K. Kiernan and H. Land, Lone Motherhood inTwentieth Century Britain, AUTHORSviiPat Thane is Professor of Contemporary History at the Universityof Sussex. She is the author of Foundations of the Welfare State ,Longmans, second edition 1996 and of numerous articles on thehistory of social Welfare and of women. She is currently complet-ing a book on the history of old age in England for OxfordUniversity Vincent is Professor of Political Theory, School ofEuropean Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff and AssociateEditor of the Journal of Political Ideologies.

6 He was formerly aFellow at the Research School of the Social Sciences, AustralianNational University. Recent books include Theories of the State ,1994 reprint; Modern Political Ideologies, second edition 1995; ARadical Hegelian: The Political and Social Philosophy of HenryJones, with David Boucher, 1993; and (ed.) Political Theory:Tradition and Diversity, 1997. He is currently completing a bookon twentieth-century political Whiteside is Reader in Public Policy at the School for PolicyStudies, University of Bristol. She formerly worked as ResearchFellow at the Centre for Social History at Warwick University andat the Public Records Office in London.

7 She has published anumber of books and articles on employment change and socialpolicy in historical and comparative perspective, also on themixed economy of Welfare . Recent books include Bad Times:Unemployment in British Social and Political History, 1991; AuxSources du Chomage: France - Grande Bretagne 1880-1914, editedwith M. Mansfield and R. Salais, 1994; Governance, Industry andLabour Markets in Britain and France, edited with R. Salais, is currently researching comparisons in recent labourmarket change and systems of social protection in Britain,France and s IntroductionWelfare Before the Welfare StateDavid GladstoneMUCH of the discussion following the Cabinet changes in July1998 centred on the future of Welfare reform.

8 One viewargued, especially with the resignation of Frank Field from hisspecifically designated post of Minister for Welfare Reform, that thinking the unthinkable was no longer on the agenda, and thatradical change to Britain s Welfare State was no longer a priorityof the Blair government. A contrary view asserted that, despitethe change in personnel at the Department of Social Security, theproject remained in place; and that, with Alasdair Darling as thenew Social Security Secretary of State , there would be a greateremphasis on the delivery of Welfare are certainly indicators which suggest the continuityrather than abandonment of the agenda of Welfare reform.

9 Theraft of reviews initiated in the first year of the Blair governmentremain in place, such as the important review of pensions, forexample; and Welfare to work remains an on-going feature ofpolitical rhetoric. In that context it is at least feasible to suggestthat radical alternatives challenging dependency on the welfarestate that were once the preserve of the political Right remain theestablished (though politically conflictual) language of the Blairiteproject. Such an interpretation summons up a vision of thewelfare State leaner and fitter for the twenty-first century. But, insome respects at least, it represents a re-configuration of anearlier experience of Welfare ; the vision is of Welfare Before thewelfare State .

10 It is the contemporary debate about the future ofwelfare that gives these historical essays a timely appeal a growing consensus seems to have emerged amongBritish politicians that Britain s Welfare State is in need of radicalrestructuring, historians have become more comprehensive intheir exploration of Britain s Welfare past. Earlier studiespublished in the 1960s and 1970s, as Lewis notes in this volume, Before BEVERIDGE2tended to focus almost exclusively on the role of the State and tostress the eventual triumph of collectivism over individualism ( ). Titles such as The Coming of the Welfare State or TheEvolution of the British Welfare State tended to emphasise whatFinlayson graphically termed the Welfare State escalator 1 inwhich Britain emerged from the darkness of the nineteenth-century poor law into the light of the beveridge Plan of 1942 andthe post-war Welfare State (p.)