Attlee, Clement

Jonathan Dickens

doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.1527

Attlee, Clement

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Abstract

Clement Attlee was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1945-1951, leading his Labour government on a radical programme of post-war reconstruction. Attlee himself came from a privileged background, and the decisive influences that brought him to left-wing politics came from his time working with children and families in the East End of London, in the years before the First World War. His book ‘The Social Worker’, published in 1920, drew on these experiences.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Social Work
Place of Publication	online
Publisher	Oxford University Press
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.1527
Publication status	Published - 29 Sep 2021

Keywords

Labour Party
welfare state
‘The Social Worker’
London School of Economics
William Beveridge
Charity Organisation Society
social service idea

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10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.1527

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