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This paper locates the over-arching principles of pre-modern social security provision, i.e. financial support offered by the state to those unable to support themselves. The paper examines official documents and evidence from implementation to search for generic principles. Five systems are examined: the “old poor law” of 1601, the “new poor law” of 1834, the centralised, collectivist welfare scheme introduced by the Liberal government 1906-1914, the more explicitly socialist welfare introduced 1945-1951, and the post-computerisation principles of the DHSS in 1980, The paper found eight overarching principles in the old poor law, which was increased to twelve in the new poor law. Five of the old poor law principles were discarded by the liberal reforms, and four further principles were discarded by the Labour Government. By the Green and White Papers on ‘Reform of Social Security’ in 1985, each of the original principles of welfare had been discarded.
Studies in Political Economy 62(2000)
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