TY - BOOK AU - James Bartholomew TI - The welfare state we're in SN - 1842750631 AV - HV245 .B335 2004 U1 - 361.650941 21 PY - 2004/// CY - London PB - Politico’s N1 - For Upper School N2 - The founding of the welfare state in the 1940s has been seen as the crowning achievement of modern British social history. In this controversial book, however, journalist James Bartholomew argues that it has undermined the very decency and kindness that first inspired it, causing thousands of people to live in deprivation and resulting in a generation of badly educated and dependent citizens ER -