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As pointed out in the previous chapter, the League only gradually came to appreciate the influence which could be wielded through a cooperative rather than a confrontational approach. It had long felt ambivalent towards committee work as this usually involved cooperating with charitable organisations. The League had, for example, successfully petitioned the first Labour government in 1924 to restore its seat on the Ministry of Health’s Advisory Committee on the Welfare of the Blind, but the value of such representation was already being discussed again just two years later.1 Even its decision to sit on the Wireless for the Blind Committee triggered protests from branches in the early 19305.2
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Nicholas Timmins, The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State (London, 2001), pp. 11–25.
Ministry of Labour, Report of the Working Party on Workshops for the Blind (London, 1962), pp. 11–12.
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Reiss, M. (2015). Success at Last? The League and the Consolidation of the Welfare State. In: Blind Workers against Charity. Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137364470_6
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