Class Struggle and Social Welfare

<p>For too long the collective struggles of the oppressed over welfare provision and welfare settlement have been ignored yet such struggles punctuate recent British history. By presenting a series of case-studies of episodes of collective action from the field of social policy and social welfare <em>Class Struggle and Welfare</em> aims to rediscover this 'hidden history'. <br> Organised chronologically the book covers some of the most important welfare struggles from the early nineteenth century some of the issues covered are: <br> *the growth of capitalism <br> *the development of the poor laws and the anti-poor law movement <br> *working class self-help welfare in the nineteenth century<br> *rent strikes on the Clyde in 1920s <br> *the squatters movement in the 1950s <br> *the struggle for abortion rights <br> *an analysis of the urban riots in the 1980s <br> *the great poll tax rebellion.</p>