How Long to Read A Decent Provision

How Long Does it Take to Read A Decent Provision?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 4 minutes to read A Decent Provision by Professor John Murphy

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A Decent Provision is a narrative history of how and why Australia built a distinctive welfare regime in the period from the 1870s to 1949. At the beginning of this period, the Australian colonies were belligerently insisting they must not have a Poor Law, yet had reproduced many of the systems of charitable provision in Britain. By the start of the twentieth century, a combination of extended suffrage, basic wage regulation and the aged pension had led to a reputation as a 'social laboratory'. And yet half a century later, Australia was a 'welfare laggard' and the Labor Party's welfare state of the mid-1940s was a relatively modest and parsimonious construction. Models of welfare based on social insurance had been vigorously rejected, and the Australian system continued on a path of highly residual, targeted welfare payments. The book explains this curious and halting trajectory, showing how choices made in earlier decades constrained what could be done, and what could be imagined. Based on extensive new research from a variety of primary sources it makes a significant contribution to general historical debates, as well as to the field of comparative social policy.

How long is A Decent Provision?

A Decent Provision by Professor John Murphy is 302 pages long, and a total of 76,104 words.

This makes it 102% the length of the average book. It also has 93% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Decent Provision Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 55 minutes to read A Decent Provision aloud.

What Reading Level is A Decent Provision?

A Decent Provision is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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