Preface / Evelyn Z. Brodkin and Gregory Marston -- Introduction -- Work and the welfare state / Evelyn Z. Brodkin -- Street-level organizations and the welfare state / Evelyn Z. Brodkin -- What's at issue: politics, policies, and jobs -- The American welfare state : two narratives / Michael...

Introduction : from social problems to social policies -- The social worldview of medieval Christianity as prologue -- Secular transitions and assumptions -- Marx, Durkheim, and the limits of laissez-faire capitalism -- From theory to ideology -- Origins of social policy in Europe and the United...

Historians interpret the welfare state, 1975-1995 / Maurizio Vaudagna -- Reconciling European integration and the national welfare state : a neo-Weberian perspective / Maurizio Ferrera -- Democracy after the welfare state : an interview / Ira Katznelson -- Privatization and self-responsibility :...