Forming Nation, Framing Welfare

✍ Scribed by Gail Lewis

• Publisher: Routledge in association with the Open University
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 351
• Series: Social policy--welfare, power and diversity bk. 2
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book introduces a historical perspective on the emergence and development of social welfare. Starting from the familiar ground of the "the family," it traces some of the crucial historical roots of contemporary social problems and social policy in the 19th and 20th centuries around education, the family, unemployment and nationhood. By aiming to discover the link between the pat and the present, it shows that social problems are socially constructed in specific contexts and that there are diverse and competing ways of telling history.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
CHAPTER 1 A Family for Nation and Empire......Page 18
CHAPTER 2 ‘Remoralizing’ the Poor?: Gender, Class and Philanthropy in Victorian Britain......Page 64
CHAPTER 3 Education for Labour: Social Problems of Nationhood......Page 114
CHAPTER 4 Education for ‘Minorities’: Irish Catholics in Britain......Page 164
CHAPTER 5 Patterns of Visibility: Unemployment in Britain during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries......Page 210
CHAPTER 6 Families of Meaning: Contemporary Discourses of the Family......Page 262
CHAPTER 7 Review......Page 304
Acknowledgements......Page 326
Index......Page 328
The Open University Course Team......Page 350