Recommended Reading

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More about European welfare states (from Margaret O'Mara):

Allen, Ann.  Feminism and Motherhood in Germany, 1800-1914.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991.

Baldwin, Peter.  The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases in the European Welfare State, 1875‑1975.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Dickinson, Edward.  The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.

deSwaan, Abram.  In the Care of the State: New York: Health Care, Education, and Welfare in Europe and America During the Modern Era.  Oxford University Press, 1988.

Dwork, Deborah.  War is Good for Babies and Other Young Children.  London: Tavistock, 1987.

Esping-Andersen, Gosta.  The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Esping-Andersen, Gosta, Martin Rein, and Lee Rainwater, eds.  Stagnation and Renewal in Social Policy: The Rise and Fall of Policy Regimes (selected chapters).  Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1987.

Evans, Eric J.  Social Policy, 1830-1914.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978.

Flora, Peter and A. Heidenheimer, eds.  The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America.  London: Transaction Books, 1981.

Harris, Jose.  “Society and the State in Twentieth-Century Britain” in F.M.L. Thompson, ed., The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750‑1950. Volume III.   New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Hong, Young-Sun.  Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State, 1919‑1933.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Koven, Seth and Sonya Michel, eds.  Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States.  New York: Routledge, 1993.

Lees, Lynn Hollen.  Solidarities of Strangers: the English Poor Laws and the People, 1700-1948.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Rodgers, Daniel T.  Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Pedersen, Susan.  Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914-1945.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.