Summary
I WANT this week to muse and even, eventually, rant, on the difference between two concepts of how to deal with the problem of 'idleness'.
Somebody just asked me to write a chapter updating William Beveridge's discussion of idleness, one of the five giants which he proposed to slay by developing proposals for the post-war reconstruction of the UK's welfare state in his iconic report of 1942.See the full content of this document
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It's Labour Policy to Make the Poor Pay ; Wednesday Forum
For Beveridge, idleness meant unemployment and was a fault of the organisation of the economic system.
He followed up the 1942 report with a prescription for Full Employment In A Free Society published in 1944. Although Beveridge was onc...See the full content of this document
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