Comparative Development in Social Welfare

Social welfare history has needed historical reconsideration since the growth of regional research. Pivoting on a central theme of the development of public provision for social welfare, Comparative Development in Social Welfare (originally published in 1972) investigates how elements of social policy have evolved in Great Britain and the United States from the sixteenth to twentieth century.

Professor Briggs reviews the methodology of social welfare history and argues for a wide-ranging app...