Practice question · Numerical answer
The Beveridge Report of 1942 named five giants that a post-war social settlement should defeat. How many of them did it name?
Hints
- They were want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness.
- Count the items in that list.
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5
Why
Five. Want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness, and the list is a plan for four institutions plus full employment: social security, a health service, education, housing, and work. Beveridge’s rhetorical device was to name the problems so that the institutions could be deduced from them.
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