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  William Beveridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Beveridge, the eldest son of a judge in the Indian civil service, was born in Bengal, India, on 5th March 1879.
Beveridge saw full employment (which he defined as unemployment of no more than 3%) as the pivot of the social welfare programme he expressed in the 1942 Beveridge Report, and Full Employment in a Free Society (1944) expressed how this goal might be gained.
Later that year, Beveridge, a member of the Liberal Party, was elected to the House of Commons, briefly serving the constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
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 William Beveridge
William Beveridge, the eldest son of a judge in the Indiann civil service, was born in Bengal, India, on 5th March 1879.
Lord Beveridge was so highly influenced by the Fabian Society socialists - in particular by Beatrice Potter Webb, with whom he worked on the 1909 Poor Laws report - that he could readily be considered one of their number.
Beveridge was created Baron Beveridge of Tuggal and eventually became leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_beveridge.html   (986 words)

  
 SkyMinds.Net (British Politics : The Beveridge Report)
William Beveridge was born in 1879 and he became a social worker in the Est End of London in 1903.
Since Beveridge and others believed the birth rate was falling and thus the country would, in the long term, suffer from this decline, his ideas were also coloured by a desire to encourage women to have children and not to penalise them for so doing.
Beveridge was not the first to raise the questions of children's allowances : Rowntree himself and others had advocated their introduction before the War and even in the period 1940-1941, an inter-Party group was formed to accelerate their introduction.
www.skyminds.net /politics/gb_06_the_beveridge_report.php   (1603 words)

  
 Social Security - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Wresinski report identifies lack of basic security as "the absence of one of more factors that enable individuals and families to assume basic responsibilities and to enjoy fundamental rights".
Beveridge attempted to make insurance the basis for a comprehensive, universal scheme covering all the main social needs.
Social security is seen as providing assistance to retired workers, often in the form of a superannuation system that provides a pension from a fund to which workers have contributed throughout their working lives.
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 William Beveridge
When I started working with Beveridge, I soon found that, although he was ruthless at getting at the facts and drove me as hard as he drove himself, he had certain ingrained views about unemployment, still derived from the historic study he had made in 1909.
Beveridge was the first major figure to subject the problem to serious analysis, based partly on the figures he was able to obtain through the Poor Law Commission and partly through his characteristically humane work at Toynbee Hall in East London, where both he and, later, Attlee first became aware of the 'social problem'.
The Beveridge scheme may ultimately be adopted in the somewhat mutilated form, but it is something of an achievement even to be debating such a thing in the middle of a desperate war in which we are still fighting for survival.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUbeveridge.htm   (1492 words)

  
 William Henry Beveridge Biography / Biography of William Henry Beveridge Main Biography
William Beveridge was born in Bengal, India, on March 5, 1879, the son of an Englishman employed in the Indian civil service.
Beveridge became director of the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1919, and when he left in 1937 to become master of University College, Oxford, the London School had a worldwide reputation.
Beveridge was elected member of Parliament for Berwick in 1944 but was defeated in the general election less than a year later.
www.bookrags.com /biography/william-henry-beveridge   (561 words)

  
 east end of london, welfare state, clement attlee, beveridge report, london vacation, toynbee hall
Beveridge’s expertise in the employment – or more accurately unemployment – market was formed when he became director of Labour Exchanges at the age of just 30.
The Beveridge Report appeared in 1942 and caused a stir of excitement throughout Britain, with its outline of a comprehensive scheme of social insurance.
Beveridge proposed that everyone would be covered – henceforth no-one would want for food, health care or a roof over their head simply because they were poor or had lost their job.
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 ATLAS F1 News: Australian GP Organisers Cleared in Marshal's Death
A confidential report by the FIA, investigating into the death of track marshal Graham Beveridge at the season's opening race in Albert Park, clears the Australian Grand Prix organisers from any responsibility and states the tragdy was a 'freak accident'.
Australia's Sunday Herald Sun reports today that 51-year-old Beveridge - who died of chest injuries after being struck by a flying wheel from the car of Jacques Villeneuve, who collided with Ralf Schumacher - was apparently not supposed to be in the location where he was hit.
According the the paper, the investigation report states Beveridge was a spectators' marshal and was not one of the trackside workers designated for the turn 3 post.
www.atlasf1.com /news/2001/aug/report.php/id/5202/.html   (256 words)

  
 BBC - WW2 People's War - Beveridge Report - A1143578
The Beveridge Report was presented by its author, Sir William Beveridge, to the British parliament in November 1942.
The problem of a diminishing population, Beveridge argued, made it 'imperative to give first place in social expenditure to the care of childhood and to the safeguarding of maternity'.
A large section of the report describes the economic situation and his vision for provision rates of benefit and contribution and how they might be managed.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A1143578   (481 words)

  
 Modern History Sourcebook: Sir William Beveridge: Social and Allied Services (The Beveridge Report), 1942
The problem of age is discussed accordingly in Part III of the Report as one of three special problems; the measures proposed for dealing with this problem are summarised in paras.
In preparing the Report, the question arose naturally as to how far it was necessary at this stage to enter into details, and whether it might not be preferable to deal with principles only.
Even among the major proposals of the Report there are differences of importance and of relevance to the scheme as a whole.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1942beveridge.html   (9198 words)

  
 William H. Beveridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lord Beveridge was so highly influenced by the Fabian Socialists - in particular by Beatrice Potter Webb, with whom he worked on the 1909 Poor Laws report - that he could readily be counted among them.
In short, the Beveridge Report outlined the construction of the modern welfare state - the culmination of the Fabians' project.
Beveridge Report Website at Dept. of Social Security, UK Beveridge Biography at National Health Services, UK Beveridge Bio at BBC
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 ITworld.com - Sun's HR chief also to head up European ops
Crawford Beveridge, Sun's executive vice president, people and places, and chief human resources officer, is to add to his duties for the company, a Sun spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday.
Beveridge, 58, who originally hails from Scotland, has yet to determine where he'll be based, the Sun spokeswoman said.
Beveridge returned to Sun in April 2000 as head of human resources.
www.itworld.com /Tech/4535/050622sunchief/pfindex.html   (245 words)

  
 Scios - Press Release
Beveridge will report to David Gryska, senior vice president and chief financial officer, and lead investor and public relations and media communications.
Beveridge joins Scios from Amgen where she was most recently associate director, investor relations, serving as a key communicator to the financial community for the past three years.
Beveridge holds a Masters of Business from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia and a Bachelor of Applied Science from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
www.sciosinc.com /scios/pr_1046370452   (353 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Beveridge and Social Security: An International Retrospective   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
BL Examines the recommendations of the Beveridge Report BL Deals with the adoption or dismissal of his recommendations The Beveridge Report of 1942 captured the public imagination with its principles of universal social insurance in Britain.
Beveridge's idea was to use universal benefits to remove the poverty caused by certain contingencies, such as unemployment or retirement.
This book considers the influence of Beveridge's ideas on social security and argues that the reality, over the subsequent fifty years, has been very different from the principles and from the vision he expressed.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0198288069   (366 words)

  
 Spectator, The: State control
Beveridge came up with the idea of wartime rationing to solve the problem of food shortages.
It produced the Beveridge Report, which people queued to read and which proposed National Insurance for state pensions, cash benefits, children's allowances and a scheme of medical treatment for everybody, all of which remain today.
Later, Beveridge came to loathe the expression 'welfare state', and in a radio interview said, 'I take every possible opportunity in denying the authorship of the welfare state.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200212/ai_n9155896   (849 words)

  
 Given Churchill’s popularity in the war, why did he lose the 1945 election?
The Beveridge Report, which was introduced to review, the existing welfare provisions identified five "giants" which would have to be overcome if Britain were to rebuild as a better society.
Sir William Beveridge who was chairman of the committee suggested a number of ways in his report to slay these giants.
The panoramic vision of the Beveridge report and the huge public attention it received made social welfare a high profile issue and demanded a response from the nation's political leaders.
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 Beveridge Report
Beveridge was an administrative genius, probably without parallel in this century.
The opponents of the Report - from Sir John Anderson all the way down to Sir Herbert Williams - spoke as though the basis of the Report were an attempt to cadge money off the rich on behalf of the not entirely deserving poor.
The Beveridge Plan was given so much publicity for the sole purpose of demonstrating to the world Great Britain's claim to leadership in the social sphere.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWbeveridgereport.htm   (1623 words)

  
 Beveridge Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
This watershed publication was better known as the Beveridge Report – named after its author, the journalist, academic and Government advisor, William Beveridge and would shape British Government Social Policy for the rest of the century.
The report directed government towards the goals of fighting the five ‘giant evils’ of want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness.
This significant report was initiated by the coalition wartime Government in 1941 in order to fully plan was the new post-war world whenever that came along.
www.historynewsletter.org /clubs/cities/clubs/50london/beveridge.htm   (536 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Beveridge and social security : an international retrospective
Beveridge and social security : an international retrospective
Subjects: Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge, -- Baron, -- 1879-1963 -- Congresses.
Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge, -- Baron, -- 1879-1963.
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 ★ Books by William Beveridge
During Asquiths Liberal government of 1908 to 1914 Beveridge was asked to advise Lloyd George on Old Age Pensions and National Insurance; the government began to take action to combat poverty.During World War I (1914-1918) Beveridge was involved in mobilising and controlling manpower.
Beveridge argued that this system would provide a minimum standard of living "below which no one should be allowed to fall".Recommended that the government should find ways of fighting the five Giant Evils of Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.
Later that year, Beveridge, a member of the Liberal Party, was elected to the House of Commons.The following year the new Labour Government began the process of implementing Beveridges proposals that provided the basis of the modern Welfare State.
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 Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Beveridge, the son of a British civil servant in India, was educated at Balliol College, Oxford.
More results on "Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron" when you join.
Beveridge, Albert J. orator, U.S. senator, and historian.
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 University of Sussex Library Special Collections: Mass-Observation Archive
Approx 80 general reactions to publication of the Beveridge Report, December 1942, from Bookham, Kilburn, Streatham, Bolton.
Handwritten informals, reactions to the Beveridge Report from Epsom 1.1.43
Handwritten and typed indirects relating to the Beveridge report.
sussex.ac.uk /library/speccoll/collection_catalogues/tclists/tc53.html   (2991 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 4 - This Sceptred Isle - The Turning of the Tide and the Beveridge Report
In 1943 General Dwight D Eisenhower was appointed to plan the Normandy invasion.
At home Sir William Beveridge presented his cradle-to-the-grave report on the future of social security.
Beveridge's first interest, however, was unemployment, although his views were not followed by the Government.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/sceptred_isle/page/206.shtml?question=206   (275 words)

  
 Contemporary Review: The great welfare state myth - United Kingdom
Two boxes were missing, and it transpired that they had never arrived at the library, nor had the correspondence in them been used by Lady Beveridge, to whom the boxes had been sent, in her book Beveridge and His Plan, which had been published in 1954.
By the time Lady Beveridge's book was published, her husband's fame had been dimmed by time, but Owen was pursuing a distinguished career as a top international civil servant in the United Nations.
By instructing Beveridge to assume an unemployment rate of 8.5 per cent, when the reasonable expectation was less than 3 per cent, the Treasury expected to save more than the 86 million[pounds] cited.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_n1557_v267/ai_17716148   (1191 words)

  
 The Independent (London, England): As radical as the Beveridge report and as necessary for society's future.(News)@ ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
As radical as the Beveridge report and as necessary for society's future.(News)
ONCE IN a while a document comes along that is an official map to a very different future: the 1942 Beveridge report prefiguring the welfare state springs to mind.
While the new Energy Review may not be accorded the classic status instantly bestowed on Beveridge, it is no less a way forward to a radically different world.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:82065950&refid=ink_tptd_np   (205 words)

  
 April 23 BC 70-71 Post War Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The report asserted that Britain's aim should be "the abolition of want." Britain should have a "comprehensive policy of social progress," for the
The report met with immediate acclaim in Britain and abroad, everywhere that is except in the British government.
The Labour party, however, was quick to endorse the report and eagerly awaited the postwar election.
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