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A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid

By (author) Peter Hennessy

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One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in Britain The 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future, once the immediate Covid crisis has passed? In A Duty of Care, Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before covid) and AC (after covid). He looks back to Sir William Beveridge's classic identification of the 'five giants' against which society had to battle - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness - and laid the foundations for the modern welfare state in his wartime report. He examines the steady assault on the giants by successive post-war governments and asks what the comparable giants are now. He lays out the 'road to 2045' with 'a new Beveridge' to build a consensus for post-covid Britain with the ambition and on the scale that was achieved by the first.

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Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd
Published date | 2 Mar 2023
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 256
Dimensions | 198 x 129 x 15mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 202g
ISBN | 978-0-1419-9566-3
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BISAC | history / europe / general


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