The Welfare State
Q3) Explain the reasons for the introduction of social reforms (e.g. pensions) by the liberal government between 1906 and 1914.
Historians debated the welfare state and believed Beveridge’s liberal reforms had limitations though agree it did change attitudes towards poverty and that the welfare state had undergone a fundamental shift. While Gladstone was very much non-state intervention is based on the concept of balanced budgets, low taxes, and often referred to as laissez-faire, were appropriate to a developing capitalist society, but they could not respond effectively as economic and social conditions changed. There are a number of reasons why liberal reforms were introduced. At the latter part of the nineteenth
Q3) Explain the reasons for the introduction of social reforms (e.g. pensions) by the liberal government between 1906 and 1914.
Historians debated the welfare state and believed Beveridge’s liberal reforms had limitations though agree it did change attitudes towards poverty and that the welfare state had undergone a fundamental shift. While Gladstone was very much non-state intervention is based on the concept of balanced budgets, low taxes, and often referred to as laissez-faire, were appropriate to a developing capitalist society, but they could not respond effectively as economic and social conditions changed. There are a number of reasons why liberal reforms were introduced. At the latter part of the nineteenth