ILRLE 4440 - [The Evolution of Social Policy in Britain and America]

(crosslisted) ECON 3340
(SBA-AG)

Fall or Spring. Not offered: 2024-2025. Next offered: 2025-2026. 3 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

Prerequisite: ILRLE 2400 or equivalent.

G. Boyer.

Surveys the history of social policy in Great Britain and the United States from 1800 to the adoption of the British welfare state after World War II. Topics include the role of poor relief in the early 19th century; the changing relationship between public relief and private charity; the adoption of social insurance programs and protective labor legislation for children and women; government intervention in the Great Depression; and the beginnings of the welfare state.