PWWS: Universal Welfare State: 1940's - 1970's Flashcards
What was the key ideology of this time period?
Social Democracy
What Beveridge’s 5 Giants? (SWIID)
Squalor Want Idleness Ignorance Disease
When was the Beveridge report published?
1942
Who was in power in 1945?
Labour party
What was the ideological basis of the PWWS?
Social democratic ideas of greater social equality and social citizenship as the basis for social cohesion.
What were the main features of the PWWS? (SUCK)
Social democratic political principles
Universal
Cradle to Grave
Keynesian economic principles
What did TH Marshall say the three rights of citizenship were?
– Civil rights: freedom of contract, speech and property ownership
– Political rights: right to vote
– Social rights: right to a minimum standard of living
What were the main changes in welfare by Labour? (FUNN)
1945 - Family Allowance
Low Unemployment
1946 - National Insurance/Asssistance Act
1948 - NHS
How did Fiona Williams criticise the PWWS?
PWWS was built around assumptions of ‘normal’ social relationships - ignore the needs of people who did not fit this role
What 3 ways did Fiona Williams group the ‘non-normals’?
Subordinate - women
Marginalised - disabled
Excluded - Black immigrants
How did the New Right (Thatcherism) criticise the PWWS?
Welfare creates a dependency culture
Markets are the only way of allocating resources
How did the Neo-Liberals criticise the PWWS?
Welfare is unaffordable
What solutions did Neo-liberals give to the PWWS? (RITS)
Reduce Spending
Increase consumer choice
Tighter rules on eligibility
Selectivism
Did neo-liberals take a retrenchment or restructuring approach to welfare?
retrenchment: cuts to spending leading to an end of a welfare state
