William Beveridge (1879-1963) was a key figure in the modernization of British economic and social policy who published widely on unemployment and social securi

This volume is made up of articles and broadcasts and deals with the conditions and methods of making the British war effort more effective. It then goes on to

Beveridge defined full employment as a state where there are slightly more vacant jobs than there are available workers, or not more than 3% of the total workfo

This supplementary volume to Beveridge's important work Voluntary Action sets out some of the important material on which the Report is based, and amplifies it