STATE PROVISION FOR SOCIAL NEED:

Series Two: The Beveridge Papers from the Library of Political and Economic Science

Part 1: Early Working Papers on Welfare, Labour and Unemployment Insurance, 1902-1944

Part 2: Politics, Economic Planning, Social Insurance, Health and the Welfare State, 1944-1963

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