ABSTRACT
Originally published in 1981 The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany 1850-1950 is an edited collection on the history and future prospects of the modern welfare state. It attempts to pave the way for an analysis of the problems of the welfare state and its historical origins, and the likely future that transcends the nation-state orientated historical accounts. This collection of essays seeks to promote an interdisciplinary approach to the problems of the welfare state in two industrial societies. So far historians and social scientists concerned with this field of research have tended to work in isolation from one another, without mutual exchange of knowledge and using different methods. This book attempts to give equal scope to both perspectives.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part ONE|158 pages
The Historical
part TWO|80 pages
Unemployment and the Crisis of the Welfare Policies in the Interwar Period
part THREE|96 pages
The Breakthrough of the Welfare State after the Second World War-I
part FOUR|97 pages
Past and Future of the Welfare State in Social-Scientific Perspective