{"product_id":"9780241491942","title":"A Duty of Care : Britain Before and After Covid","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in BritainThe 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future, once the immediate Covid crisis has passed?In A Duty of Care, Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before covid) and AC (after covid). He looks back to Sir William Beveridge's classic identification of the 'five giants' against which society had to battle - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness - and laid the foundations for the modern welfare state in his wartime report. He examines the steady assault on the giants by successive post-war governments and asks what the comparable giants are now. He lays out the 'road to 2045' with 'a new Beveridge' to build a consensus for post-covid Britain with the ambition and on the scale that was achieved by the first.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45457856790749,"sku":"9780241491942","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9780241491942.jpg?v=1719937183","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9780241491942","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}