Recommended Reading

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European welfare state formation (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. [MENTIONED IN CLASS - ARGUES THAT MIDDLE CLASS WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN WELFARE STATE FORMATION]

                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, Martin Rein, and Lee Rainwater, eds.  Stagnation and Renewal in Social Policy: The Rise and Fall of Policy Regimes.  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.     

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

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