The mid-twentieth-century welfare state extended middle-class access to the previously excluded

Evidence

Neoliberal commitments became increasingly institutionalized in the late 1970s and 1980s as the respective rules of Thatcher, Reagan, and Kohl sought to restructure the state. This restructuring became the rallying cry as much of the institutions of globalization as of the overdeveloped states of the global north. From the 1930s through the 1970s, the liberal democratic state had offered a more or less robust set of institutional apparatuses concerned in principle at least to advance the welfare of its citizens. This was the period of advancing social security, welfare safety nets, various forms of national health system, the expansion of and investment in public education, including higher education, in some states to the exclusion of private and religiously sponsored educational institutions. It saw the emergence of state bureaucracies as major employers especially in later years of historically excluded groups. And all this, in turn, offered optimism among a growing proportion of the populace for access to middle-class amenities, including those previously racially excluded within the state and new immigrants from the global south. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1740

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the pre-neoliberal liberal democratic state by its welfarist institutional apparatuses and their inclusivity.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1740
• XREF: connects to: Welfare-state programs, not markets, produced extreme social mobility in the UK — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 18; Postwar Italian social insurance pooled worker, employer, state, and local aid funding — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1660; Welfare bureaucracies materially advanced historically excluded groups before 1980 — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1740 (+3 more)