Description
| Product ID: | 9780141995663 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Duty of Care |
| Subtitle: | Britain Before and After Covid |
| Authors: | Author: Peter Hennessy |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, History, Social and cultural history, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made), Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Social & cultural history, Social impact of disasters, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in BritainThe '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. 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 |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-03-02 |
