William Beveridge was an economist and social reformer who worked for the Board of Trade He worked with Winston Churchill to create a minimum wage for workers in 1909, and he published the hugely influential Beveridge report in 1942.
In 1909, Beveridge also helped Churchill to pass the Labour Exchange Act. Labour exchanges were like job centres. Unemployed workers could go there to find out about job vacancies.
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