LABOR PARTY

The Labor Party and the Acceptance of the Bever-Ridge Report

The Labor Party and the Acceptance of the Bever-Ridge Report

Introduction

For ten years the EU has adopted a coordinated strategy for employment and an open method of coordination on social protection based on a common diagnosis, on objectives and guidelines determined in common, and then transposed national action plans submitted to a subsequent evaluation at European level. This power of objectives results in a progressive Europeanization of social policy in the sense that the outlines of which first developed in Europe, where they are stabilized and consolidated before integrating national policies both in terms of method and content . As after World War II, today witnessing fundamental changes in social systems in Europe has been witnessed. This report revolves around the doctrine of William Beveridge, who exerted great influence in the post-war countries in the Nordic and Western Europe, to have the rulers were in exile in London, is now a renewed relevance.

Beveridge was born in Bengal in 1879. The son of a judge serving in the Indian Civil Service, was educated at Oxford, however, at Balliol College. He taught law, wrote articles for the Morning Post, and in 1908 joined the Ministry of Finance (Board of Trade) at the hands of Winston Churchill. There, his main concern was to control unemployment by launching innovative solutions and soon becoming an authority on the subject: he published a work called "Unemployment: a problem of industry" in 1909. From 1909 and until 1916, Beveridge directed employment services he created, expanding unemployment insurance and compensation to the unemployed. These services to be passed after the small Department of Employment under the Ministry of Economy and, later, would become the Ministry of Labor, today it is present in almost all Western democracies. He was also director of the London School of Economics between 1919 and 1937. His reputation and good work helped make this economic institute in an institution of international reputation. He was an important part, in turn, of University College, and chaired the Royal Statistical Society.

Background of the Study

In 1940, During the Second World War, the Labor Party entered into a coalition with the government of the Conservative Party led by Winston Churchill. Sir William Beveridge wrote a report After Being Commissioned by the government to carry out a survey of Britain's social insurance and allied services. In the postponement, indeed the country which was at war was against Nazi Germany and experienced a very harsh time. The needs were analyzed along with the problems of the British society. He managed to show how Malthus the terrible living condition was there at his time. He suggested a plan for social security which proved to be revolutionary. Indeed historical vision of the new insurance system was very pragmatic as it Took Into account all British citizen whatever their social backgrounds and all the British citizen were expected to pay their share of the new system, Beveridge managed to think about a general ...