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Labour Reforms

  1. INTRO
    historian
    Barnett "expenditure should have been focussed on the economy"
  2. WANT
    National Insurance (Industrial Injures Act)
    1946 compensation
  3. WANT
    National Insurance Act
    • 1946
    • "from cradle to grave"
  4. WANT
    1948
    • National Assistance Act
    • safety net
    • but mean tested
  5. WANT suuccess
    • value of pensions soared
    • PThane "real advantage to women and lower classes"

    Poverty York 2%
  6. DISEASE
    NHS act 1946
  7. DISEASE
    historian
    "expenditure should have been focussed on economy"
  8. IGNORANCE
    • Education Act 1944 raised leaving age
    • three level education controlled by 11 plus exam

    accepted as success due to natural post war problems
  9. SQUALOR
    • council homes with low rents through Rent Controls Act
    • 1 million homes built
  10. IDLENESS
    • "full employment"
    • Brooke "singe most"

    1946 - unemployment below 3%
Author
Anonymous
ID
219226
Card Set
Labour Reforms
Description
higher hisory
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