ABSTRACT

First Published in 2005. This book is an attempt by a layman to explain to other laymen the purposes and processes of industrial assurance, an institution which exercises a far-reaching influence upon the life of the community, and in which for that reason the community, through its political organs of Parliament and administration, has long taken an inquisitive, critical, and entirely proper interest. This will be of interest to those studying the long experience which will enable its standards to be still further raised and those vested in its professional practitioners.

chapter I|8 pages

The Forerunners

chapter II|7 pages

Early Experiments

chapter III|9 pages

The State as Competitor

chapter IV|15 pages

The Northcote Commission

chapter V|17 pages

The Select Committee of 1889

chapter VI|11 pages

The Swelling Tide

chapter VII|11 pages

The First World War

chapter VIII|11 pages

Between the Wars

chapter IX|14 pages

The Cohen Committee

chapter X|14 pages

A Literary Onslaught

chapter XI|7 pages

The Second World War

chapter XII|28 pages

The Beveridge Report

chapter XIV|25 pages

The Campaign for Nationalization

chapter XV|8 pages

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