An international organization for social justice -- Human rights and rights at work -- The quality of work -- Social protection -- Employment and poverty reduction -- Decent work and a fair globalization -- Appendix I: A chronology of the ILO -- Appendix II: Selected official documents --...

This collection of twelve essays reviews the history of welfare in Britain over the past 150 years. It focuses on the ideas that have shaped the development of British social policy, and on the thinkers who have inspired and also contested the welfare state. It thereby constructs an intellectual...