... due to national social changes and international events. The chapter also looks at how the older generation generally benefitted from Second World War experiences that took them out of their social-class cocoon. The chapter then discusses the pioneers who chose to explore other cultures rather than...

... documented by the anthropologists working abroad both before and after the Second World War. The chapter then shifts to elaborate on the issues of sexual diversity, environment, and climate change. It demonstrates the need and potential for other life-story researchers to explore the issues around social...

... gendered union structure during the Second World War. It argues that the ACT introduced agreements and adopted organisational practices which safeguarded men’s jobs in response to the influx of women workers into the film industry during the war. Thirdly, it examines debates around which technicians should...

...This chapter examines the Catholic social thought during the nineteenth century which advocated corporatist alternatives to democracy aimed at avoiding class conflict and the rise of state socialism. This thought influenced several European countries until the Second World War. The chapter looks...

...This chapter focuses on the emergence of the intellectual case for neoliberalism both before and after the Second World War. Neoliberalism rose in opposition to left and right forms of totalitarianism and isolationism from the 1930s. The original intellectual champions of neoliberalism subscribed...

...This introductory chapter discusses the present housing situation, although it begins with a discussion of the living standards from the Second World War until modern times. It identifies the four main drivers of change, and comments on the possible future of housing policy. The chapter then looks...

...This chapter looks at why Britain failed to build a New Jerusalem after the Second World War, using the blunt tools of the bulldozer and high-rise building in green fields. It also explores the legacy of garden cities in the New Towns, Green Belts, and council estates following the Second World War...

...This chapter presents Richard Titmuss's researched account of social services during the Second World War. Problems of Social Policy (1950), forms one of the volumes of the official history of the war. It notes that the explanations offered for the development of state welfare have...

... by the United States and Britain, met to establish a financially regulated order of nation-states that would contain the excesses of free capital movements. The discussion pays particular attention to the regulation and deregulation of finance since the Second World War. banking sector Bretton Woods conference...

... prominent Catholic theologian, and political philosopher prior to the Second World War and during its aftermath. The chapter also explores how political champions of Christian democracy and of what would become the European Union, like Konrad Adenauer, combined Catholic ideas with liberal economics...

.... Aotearoa’s stability was undone by the collapse of the macro-economic developments linked with the changes in global trade, commodities, and investment markets. Following the Second World War, social work gradually became a broad professional identity that is subject to intra-professional tensions. Child...

... have played very important roles in welfare provision in the pre-war period in Japan. Although the state began to replace some of their functions after the end of the Second World War, it was impossible for it to ignore the roles of both the family and companies in establishing a new system of social...

...’. This chapter also discusses Polish memory politics regarding the Second World War and the communist past, namely the perspective where the Polish nation is a double victim – of fascism on the one hand and of communism on the other. After the methodology section, where the selection of interviewees is explained...

... of the UK following the Second World War, the welfare state took over the functions of social assistance in much the same way as it had throughout Europe after the Great Plague of 1347–50; the Established (Anglican) Church formally acknowledged that reality in 1948 and ended the Constantinian contract...

...This chapter considers the various reasons which help to determine whether the record of the Health Service is one of progress and success. Some of the more important ones become explicable only when it is understood how far reaching the effects of the Second World War on the British economy were...

...This chapter discusses America's ascent to great power status following the Second World War. It argues that the nation emerged out of the war with great wealth, unparalleled military capabilities and a series of bases spread around the world. The chapter then elaborates the key factors...

... Firth, and he is a prime example of working under colonial conditions. The chapter then moves on to the time of the Second World War, the post-war reconstruction, and the creation of the welfare state. Here Peter Townsend serves as a key exemplar. There is a discussion of the spirit of 1968...

...European governments are now engaging in one of the largest exercises in social engineering that the continent has seen since the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and refugees in Europe are now being denied their basic right to choose where they live and are instead being...