The winding road to the welfare state - 77

How did Britain transform itself from a nation of workhouses to one that became a model for the modern welfare state?

This work investigates the evolution of living standards and welfare policies in Britain from the 1830s to 1950 and provides insights into how British working-class households coped with economic insecurity.

The text examines the retrenchment in Victorian poor relief, the Liberal Welfare Reforms, and the beginnings of the postwar welfare state, and it describes how workers altered spending and saving methods based on changing government policies.