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Social Security : The story of British Social Progress and the Beveridge Plan
1943 :: BOOK
Account of British social services since 1900 and the proposals of the Beveridge Report, written by Sir Ronald Davison and 'visualized by Isotype'. Chapters cover social progress, primary needs and risks, social security in action, a worked example of a couple ('Adam Black and Eve Brown') through the insurance system, and administration and finance. Charts cover poverty and life expectancy, overcrowding and infant mortality in Stepney, Hampstead and the Isle of Wight, unemployment, sources of poverty, survival chances, subsistence requirements, regional rents, social services, the six insurance classes and age groups, shifting age structure 1911-1971, administration and finance under present schemes and the Beveridge Plan, and the burden on employers and the Exchequer. Designed and produced by Adprint Limited, London; printed by Love & Malcomson, Redhill.
