The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century

• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of California Press 2019
• Subjects: Sociology; Social Science; General
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

"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...