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John Murphy

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 parsi… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-317-18841-4
  • EAN: 9781317188414
  • Produktnummer: 20178045
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 294 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 4'710 KB

Über den Autor


Associate Professor John Murphy, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne, Australia

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