Download or read book The Twentieth-Century Welfare State written by David Gladstone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-05-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The welfare state has been one of the most significant developments in twentieth-century Britain. Drawing on much recent research, The Twentieth-Century Welfare State narrates its principal changes and provides a thematic historical introduction to issues of finance and funding, providers and users and the role of the welfare state as a system of social stratification. Change and continuity are central themes, while the 'moving frontier' between the state and other suppliers in the mixed economy of twentieth-century welfare is also analysed.