The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century: A Global View

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Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first recognized together in mid—nineteenth—century Europe, these are the focus of the Social Question. In 1942 William Beveridge called them the “giant evils” while diagnosing the crises produced by the emergence of industrial society. More recently, during the final quarter of the twentieth century, the global spread of neoliberal policies enlarged thes...