A Radical and Progressive Legacy: Labour’s Housing Record, 1945 to 1951

IF 0.3 3区 历史学 Q4 Arts and Humanities Labour History Review Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI:10.3828/lhr.2022.3
J. Temple
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The housing record of the Labour governments of 1945 to 1951 has traditionally been described as both an underachievement and the welfare state failure of Labour and Aneurin Bevan. This judgement has been reached by way of a focus on quantitative performance indicators; that is, on the number of permanent houses constructed during the period. Given the acute housing shortage following the end of the Second World War and housing’s premier position on the list of priorities of the British public, such a judgement, made on quantitative terms alone, is not without foundation. Ernest Bevin’s staggering claim during the 1945 election campaign that Labour would build four to five million houses ‘in quick time’, and similar rhetoric from other senior Labour figures, only served to raise public expectations about Labour’s housing ambitions. This article argues that Labour’s post-war housing record, if assessed on the basis of both the quantity and the quality of the houses constructed, in addition to the political ideology that underpinned Labour’s housing programme, far from being one of underachievement and failure, was one of radical and progressive achievement.
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激进和进步的遗产:1945年至1951年工党的住房记录
1945年至1951年工党政府的住房记录传统上被描述为工党和Aneurin Bevan的成绩不佳和福利国家的失败。这一判断是通过注重量化业绩指标而作出的;即在此期间建造的永久性住房的数量。考虑到第二次世界大战结束后严重的住房短缺,以及住房在英国公众优先事项清单上的首要地位,仅从数量角度做出这样的判断并非没有根据。欧内斯特·贝文在1945年竞选期间惊人地宣称,工党将“在短时间内”建造400万至500万套住房,以及其他工党高层人士的类似言论,只会提高公众对工党住房雄心的期望。这篇文章认为,如果根据建造房屋的数量和质量来评估工党战后的住房记录,再加上支撑工党住房计划的政治意识形态,工党的住房计划远非成绩不佳和失败,而是一项激进和进步的成就。
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