Social Progress in Britain
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 September 2018
- ISBN 9780198805489
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages266 pages
- Size 240x163x21 mm
- Weight 564 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Social Progress in Britain investigates how much progress Britain has made in tackling the challenges of material deprivation, ill-health, educational standards, lack of housing, and unemployment in the decades since the Beverage Report was published.
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In his landmark 1942 report on social insurance Sir William Beveridge talked about the 'five giants on the road to reconstruction' -- the giants of Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
Social Progress in Britain investigates how much progress Britain has made in tackling the challenges of material deprivation, ill-health, educational standards, lack of housing, and unemployment in the decades since Beveridge wrote. It also asks how progress in Britain compares with that of peer countries -- Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the USA. Has Britain been slipping behind? What has been the impact of the increased economic inequality which Britain experienced in the 1980s -- has rising economic inequality been mirrored by increasing inequalities in other areas of life too? Have there been increasing inequalities of opportunity between social classes, men and women, and different ethnic groups? And what have been the implications for Britain's sense of social cohesion?
Anthony Heath has established a deserved reputation as a dispassionate authority on social change, integration, and social disadvantage. Social Progress in Britain shows both where we have moved forward and where we have slipped up. We all need to pay attention and raise our game.
Table of Contents:
Beveridge's Five Giants and other challenges to social progress
The fight against Want: material prosperity, inequality and poverty
The fight against Disease: life expectancy, disease, and lifestyle
The fight against Ignorance: participation, standards and non-economic outcomes
The fight against Squalor: overcrowding, homelessness and affordability
The fight against Idleness: unemployment and discouraged workers
The challenge of inequality of opportunity: class, gender and ethnic inequalities
The challenge of social corrosion: national identity, social divisions and disengagement
Progress in tackling Beveridge's five giants: the successes and limitations of social reform
