Towards a ‘red’ and pleasant land? The attack on poverty and the pursuit of social justice in the Attlee era, 1945-51

The post-war Attlee governments (1945-51) have come to be regarded as the most ‘progressive’ in the history of the Labour Party (Jefferys, 1992; Hennessy, 1993). In this article attention will be given to how the Labour governments of this period responded to the problem of want or poverty between 1945-1951. Consideration will then be given to the way in which Labour’s attack on poverty formed part of a broader strategy to create a more just society, followed by an assessment of the impact of Labour’s approach to poverty and its pursuit of social justice will be put forward

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• The ‘official’ social justice

  Stephen Crossley•Journal of Poverty and Social…•2017

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