Anthony F. Heath

Social Progress in Britain

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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 i… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Garratt, Elizabeth / Heath, Anthony F. / Kashyap, Ridhi / Li, Yaojun / Richards, Lindsay

ISBN: 978-0-19-252794-3
EAN: 9780192527943
Produktnummer: 29391798
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'122 KB

Über den Autor

Anthony F. Heath is the Director of the Centre for Social Investigation, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. His publications include The Political Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Britain (with Stephen D. Fisher, Gemma Rosenblatt, David Sanders, and Maria Sobolewska, OUP, 2013), Hard Times: Inequality, Recession, Aftermath (with Tom Clark, Yale University Press, 2015), and Unequal Attainments: Ethnic Educational Inequalities in TenWestern Countries (co-edited with Yael Brimbaum, Proceedings of the British Academy, OUP, 2014).