The economist Sir William Beveridge gives details of his radical plans for economic and social reform in post-war Britain. He proposes major social changes on the basis that we need "the abolition ...

When Sir William Beveridge published his famous report in 1942, effectively creating the modern welfare state, he envisaged a system which would provide a safety net below which no one would be ...

William Beveridge declared that those who cannot work should be maintained by public support. The condition, however, would be the “complete and permanent loss of all citizen rights ...

In 1942, Sir William Beveridge, a prominent government economist, was commissioned to write a report on social policy to advise how Britain should rebuild after World War Two. In his report ...