First Published in 2005. The study of social administration is fundamentally the study of social policy, how it came to be in the developed communities of Western society, how it grew and how it succeeded in achieving the ends which it set out to achieve. This is Volume I from a collection on the battle against poverty and looks at Pauperism of the Elizabethan era to social policy and human rights of the 1960s.

Brian Rodgers, Senior Lecturer in Social Administration, University of Manchester.

The Battle Against PovertyPrerequisitesThe background to an ideaThe new Poor LawThe Poor Law (continued)The beginnings of changeThe great Poor Law reportSocial InsuranceThe end of the beginningThe Battle Against PovertyThe twentiesThe thirtiesBeveridge and World War II1948A Welfare StateThe problem of povertySocial policy and negative goals;