The Welfare State in Historical Perspective
Author:
- Asa BriggsABAsa Briggs
- 1 December 1961
- journal article
- on the-welfare-state
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in European Journal of Sociology
- Vol. 2 (2) , 221-258
Abstract
Thephrase “welfare state” is of recent origin. It was first used to describe Labour Britain after 1945. From Britain the phrase made its way round the world. It was freely employed, usually but not exclusively by politicians and journalists, in relation to diverse societies at diverse stages of development. Historians also took over the phrase. Attempts were made to re-write nineteenth and twentieth century history, particularly British history, in terms of the “origins” and “development” of a “welfare state”.Keywords
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