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Title: Stopping the poor getting poorer : the establishment and professionalisation of poverty NGOs, 1945-95
Related: Crowson, Nick; Hilton, Matthew and McKay, James. NGOs in contemporary Britain : non-state actors in society and politics since 1945, p.147-163
Publisher: Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan
Date: 2009
Author/Creator: Evans, Tanya
Description: After the Second World War it was widely believed that the welfare state had eradicated poverty. Within this context, voluntary organisations that represented the needs of the poor did not fare well in terms of funding or government influence. This situation was to change however in response to a number of high profile social surveys written and published in the 1960s.
Resource Type: book chapter
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Modern History

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