{"product_id":"books-a-duty-of-care-by-peter-hennessy","title":"A Duty of Care","description":"One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in Britain  The '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.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53669384978705,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780141995663.jpg?v=1781508146","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-a-duty-of-care-by-peter-hennessy","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}