Search Results for: The Making Of A Welfare Class

This book examines the relationship between the middle class and the welfare state. Taking an interpretive approach which understands the middle class as a soci

Organised chronologically this book covers some of the most important welfare struggles since the early nineteenth century. It looks at the growth of capitalism

The American welfare state is often blamed for exacerbating social problems confronting African Americans while failing to improve their economic lot. Michael K

Including education has profound consequences, undergirding the case for the productivity of welfare state programs and the explanation for why all rich nations

A groundbreaking account of how the welfare state began with early nineteenth-century child labor laws, and how middle-class and elite reformers made it happen