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- Title
Many Mouths: The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State.
- Authors
Earle, Rebecca
- Abstract
Durbach is an expert guide to debates about state feeding, one who elucidates the often-incompatible political, economic, practical, scientific, and philosophical principles at play to highlight the messiness behind the policies. To be sure, as Durbach concedes, there were some overarching trends; over the twentieth century the state began to accept some responsibility for supporting the wellbeing of all members of the nation, but Durbach's focus is on the "messiness" of these processes (4). Officials rarely learned from past experiences of state feeding, were inconsistent in their use of nutritional science, and responded more to the specifics of each situation than to broader comparisons with other state feeding programs.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; WELFARE state; PRACTICAL politics; PUBLIC welfare; WORLD War II; FEDERAL government
- Publication
Victorian Studies, 2022, Vol 64, Issue 4, p729
- ISSN
0042-5222
- Publication type
Product Review
- DOI
10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.41