Machine derived contents note: List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Looking through the welfare state -- Introduction -- 1. The poor and their health: the early record -- 2. 'Gone too soon': mortality and income in modern times -- 3. Rent and the dysfunctional economy -- 4. Sickening unemployment -- 5. The palliation of penury: socialised education, health and security since 1921 -- 6. Squalor: the affordability of housing -- 7. Rent for reconstruction -- Part II: The lethal legacy -- 8. An aristocracy of service: Rent before its privatisation -- 9. An aristocracy of privatised Rent -- 10. From the Dane-geld to direct taxes: parliamentary representation and taxation -- 11. The dearth and the dole: the State and the able-bodied unemployed -- 12. The English tyranny and the able-bodied employed -- 13. The battle for Rent and Welfare. Part I: 1880-1905 -- 14. The battle for Rent and Welfare. Part II: 1906 onwards -- Bibliography -- Index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-459) and index
