Arguments Compared With The Majority Report
The central arguments between Helen Bosanquet of the Charity Organisation Society and Beatrice Webb - who led the intellectual arguments for majority and minority respectively - have resonated across later debates about poverty and welfare. Webb called for a structural understanding of the causes of poverty - against were a majority but not a clear majority (absolute majority) who feared that this would underplay individual responsibility - and she argued that collective responsibility to prevent poverty required a much greater public role for the state in guaranteeing a basic minimum, while Bosanquet argued that charitably led provision would be undermined by the state.
A Guardian editorial in 2009, marking the centenary of the Minority Report, wrote that "the seed that was to grow into the welfare state was planted ... Workhouses lingered on in various forms and the poor law itself lasted until 1948 - but Beatrice had already written its obituary in 1909".
Read more about this topic: Minority Report (Poor Law)
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