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In Western Europe at least, during the 1940s and 1950s welfare states became an established part of the political order. The rights they conferred to social protection and educational opportunity combined with rising standards of living and full employment to produce what now, in retrospect, seems a golden age of social harmony and economic prosperity.
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Room, G. (1986). The European Community as a Learning System. In: Cross-National Innovation in Social Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18076-9_7
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