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Welfare and wellbeing: Richard Titmuss's contribution to social policy

Pete Alcock, Howard Glennerster, and Ann Oakley

Print publication date: 2001

Print ISBN-13: 9781861342997

Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012

DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781861342997.001.0001

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The social division of welfare: Some reflections on the search for equity

The social division of welfare: Some reflections on the search for equity

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(p.59) Chapter Two The social division of welfare: Some reflections on the search for equity
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Welfare and wellbeing
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Tania Burchardt

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Policy Press
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781861342997.003.0007

This chapter explores the extract from Titmuss's lecture given in honour of Eleanor Rathbone, the champion of family allowances, at the University of Birmingham in 1955. It notes that this is one of the most influential aspects of Titmuss's work on welfare, in both academic and policy circles. It emphasises that the effect on the analysis of the distribution of contributions and benefits across social classes is an important implication of bringing fiscal and occupational welfare within the scope of ‘welfare’. It argues that the middle classes are the primary beneficiaries of fiscal and occupational welfare and shows that the effect of child tax allowances is to give three times as much to a high-earner with two children than to a low earner in similar circumstances.

Keywords:   low earner, Eleanor Rathbone, family allowances, University of Birmingham, welfare, occupational welfare, middle classes, child tax allowances

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