A Duty of Care

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20.00
book_author_name: 
Peter Hennessy
book_type: 
Hardback
publisher: 
Penguin Books Ltd
published_date: 
03/03/2022
isbn: 
9780241491942
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Books > History > Regional & national history > Britain & Ireland
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Peter Hennessy|Hardback|Penguin Books Ltd|03/03/2022
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9780241491942
Book Description: 
One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in BritainThe 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future, once the immediate Covid crisis has passed?In A Duty of Care, Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before covid) and AC (after covid). He looks back to Sir William Beveridge's classic identification of the 'five giants' against which society had to battle - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness - and laid the foundations for the modern welfare state in his wartime report. He examines the steady assault on the giants by successive post-war governments and asks what the comparable giants are now. He lays out the 'road to 2045' with 'a new Beveridge' to build a consensus for post-covid Britain with the ambition and on the scale that was achieved by the first.

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