Contents

1. Beveridge’s Five Giants and Other Challenges to Social Progress

2. The Fight against Want: Material Prosperity, Inequality, and Poverty

with Elisabeth Garratt and Lindsay Richards

3. The Fight against Disease: Life Expectancy, Disease, and Lifestyle

with Ridhi Kashyap and Elisabeth Garratt

4. The Fight against Ignorance: Participation, Standards, and Non-Economic Outcomes

with Lindsay Richards

5. The Fight against Squalor: Overcrowding, Homelessness, and Affordability

with Elisabeth Garratt

6. The Fight against Idleness: Unemployment and Discouraged Workers

with Yaojun Li and Elisabeth Garratt

7. The Challenge of Inequality of Opportunity: Class, Gender, and Ethnic Inequalities

with Yaojun Li and Lindsay Richards

8. The Challenge of Social Corrosion: National Identity, Social Divisions, and Disengagement

with Lindsay Richards

9. Progress in Tackling Beveridge’s Five Giants: The Successes and Limitations of Social Reform