Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these landmarks in the history of the welfare state, earliest first.
- The OECD publishes The Welfare State in Crisis
- The Beveridge Report identifies the five giants
- Bismarck’s sickness insurance law
- The British National Health Service is founded
- Marshall publishes Citizenship and Social Class
- Esping-Andersen publishes The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
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- The German scheme predates the British ones by more than half a century.
- 1883, 1942, 1948, 1950, 1981 and 1990.
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- Bismarck’s sickness insurance law
- The Beveridge Report identifies the five giants
- The British National Health Service is founded
- Marshall publishes Citizenship and Social Class
- The OECD publishes The Welfare State in Crisis
- Esping-Andersen publishes The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
Why
The gap between the second and fifth entries is under forty years, which is the fact worth carrying: the fully built welfare state and its announced crisis are separated by roughly one working life. Whatever the crisis literature is describing, it began before the institutions it describes had settled.
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