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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures and tables (excluding those in Statistical appendix) -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part one The Poor law -- 1 The poor law before 1834 -- Appendix The 1834 Report -- 2 The poor law after 1834 -- 3 The poor law 1870-1914 -- Appendix (Re)writing social history -- 4 Statistical appendix Pauperism in England and Wales, c.1800-1939 -- Part two Social investigations -- 5 Mayhew -- 6 Engels -- Appendix The Condition has no other -- 7 Booth -- Appendix Booth and pauperism -- 8 Rowntree -- Bibliography -- Index.

The editors have chosen substantial extracts to illustrate the major themes and ideas in Beveridge's writing over a period of more than four decades, ranging from his book Unemployment, published in 1909, to the Beveridge Report of 1942 and beyond. Sections cover his social philosophy; the crucial role he attributed to social insurance as a technique of welfare; his relation to economics; and the stress he placed on voluntary action in a free society. Each theme is introduced by a full editorial commentary which explains its place in Beveridge's thought, as well as outlining his position and o

Adam Leaver and Karel Williams argue that since 1979 successive British governments have embraced an economic model that has produced systemic failure and pervasive mismanagement in many business sectors – yet appear to have learned nothing from this failure.