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The Next Welfare State?: UK Welfare after COVID-19

By Christopher Pierson

Book information

Publisher
Policy Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781447361213
DOI
10.56687/9781447361213
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11751700 bytes)
Pages
174\176
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 10:22:21

Description

COVID-19 has transformed the British welfare state. The government has created millions of new beneficiaries, spent tens of billions of pounds it doesn’t have and created a mountain of public debt. And yet, when the crisis has passed, we will be left with all the old problems of welfare and well-being which we have systematically failed to address over the past 50 years. In this book, Christopher Pierson argues that we need to think quite differently about how we can ensure our collective well-being in the future. To do this, he looks backwards to the welfare state’s origins and development as well as forwards, unearthing some surprising solutions in unexpected places.

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