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Social security, disability and rehabilitation: conflicts in the development of social policy 1914-1946
- Author:
- BOLDERSON Helen
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 240p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
An account of the uncertainties and conflicts which accompanied the expansion of the state role in the provision of benefits in cash and kind for disabled people. Analyses the assumptions about work and dependency underlying the competing principles which evolved in the development of war pensions, national insurance, and industrial injuries provision and in medical, rehabilitation and re-employment services. Examines the nature of policy choices and the influences and conflicting interests which affected decisions making.