BEVERIDGE, William Henry.

Unemployment, a Problem of Industry.

London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1909. 8vo, pp. xvi, 317, [1] blank, errata-leaf tipped in; bookplateremoved from the front free endpaper, small rust-mark (from paperclip) and faint trace of erased inscription on the title, occasional underlining in pencil, otherwise a good copy in the original publisher’s cloth, endpapers browned, slightly scuffed at corners, upper board lettered in blind, spine in gilt. First edition of the first major work by the architect of Britain’s social security system. Based on a course of lectures given at Oxford the previous year, it was written while Beveridge was a member of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws, to which he had been appointed by Beatrice Webb. Shortly after the book’s appearance, the famous Minority Report, written by Webb with Beveridge’s assistance, was published: this contained a detailed scheme for what subsequently came to be called social security. Beveridge returned to the subject of unemployment 25 years later in Full Employment in a Free Society (1944), which was published as a sequel to the epoch-making Beveridge Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942).

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