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In another study on poverty, Wilfred Beckerman estimated that 9.9% of the British population lived below a standardised poverty line in 1973, compared with 6.1% of the population of Belgium. [ 15 ] Low pay was also a major cause of poverty, [ 16 ] [ 17 ] with a report by the TUC in 1968 finding that about 5 million females and about 2.5 million ...
By 1957, slum clearances were well under way according to Henry Brooke, the Minister of Housing and Local Government, who stated that houses condemned or demolished had gone up from 20,000 in 1954 to 35,000 by 1956, while rehousing over 200,000 people during the mid-1950s. [15]
A history of British labour law: 1867-1945 (Hart Publishing, 2003) online. Bruce, Maurice. The Coming of the Welfare State (1966) online; Collinge, Peter, and Louise Falcini, eds. Providing for the Poor: The Old Poor Law, 1750–1834 (2022) online; Crowther, M. A. The Workhouse System 1834–1929: The history of an English social institution ...
The A-Z Guide to Modern British History. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-06388-3. 200+ short scholarly essays; covers 20th century; Gilley, Sheridan, and W. J. Sheils. A History of Religion in Britain: Practice and Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present (1994) 608pp; Gregg, Pauline. A Social and Economic History of Britain: 1760–1950 (1950 ...
The evolution of the British welfare state: a history of social policy since the Industrial Revolution (2nd ed. 1984). Häusermann, Silja, Georg Picot, and Dominik Geering. "Review article: Rethinking party politics and the welfare state–recent advances in the literature." British Journal of Political Science 43.01 (2013): 221–40. online ...
The Myth of Consensus: New Views on British History, 1945–64. Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-1-349-24942-8. Soffer, Reba (2009). History, historians, and conservatism in Britain and America: from the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan. Oxford University Press.
Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, CH (7 July 1871 – 7 October 1954) was an English sociological researcher, social reformer and industrialist.He is known in particular for his three studies of poverty in York, conducted in 1899, 1935, and 1951.
British goods were also more expensive abroad because of Sterling's overvaluation, but inferior in quality compared to the products flooding the world market from the United States, Germany and Italy. Rapid decolonisation in the British Empire through the late 1950s and 1960s dealt a further blow to British industry.