History A-Level
Government welfare policy in the 1930s
What Government welfare policy in the 1930s means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Government welfare policy in the 1930s
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Attempts to manage mass unemployment while limiting spending, assessed by their aims, operation and effects on poverty.
Topics that use Government welfare policy in the 1930s
- Paper 3, Option 34.2: Poverty, public health and the state in Britain, c1780–1939 - 5 Depression and the dole: poverty in the inter-war years, 1920–39 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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