Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State
İÇİNDEKİLERCONTENTS List of tables and figure Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: On dependence and distribution Part I: Programs and precedents 1 The family in question: State and family in prewar thought and politics Emile Zola, H. G. Wells, and the crisis of the family Dependence and the state in Britain Denatalite and the state in France Conclusion 2 The impact of the Great War The wartime social contract Gender, dependence, and the labor market Gender, dependence, and welfare Policy legacies and political agendas Conclusion Part II: Reworking the family wage in the twenties 3 Family policy as women's emancipation? The failed campaign for endowment of motherhood in Britain "Separate but equal": The vision of maternalist feminism Fantasy as social science: Seebohm Rowntree imagines the family Labour women and the "men's movement" Civil servants and the contracting state Conclusion 4 Family policy as "socialism in our time"? The failed campaign for children's allowances in Britain The Disinherited Family and the organization of the Family Endowment Society Economic arguments for family allowances: Liberal and socialist views From inquiry to stalemate: The Joint Committee on the Living Wage Family policy and the trade unions Conclusion 5 Business strategies and the family: The development of family allowances in France, 1920-1936 Family allowances and ideologies of social renewal Family allowances as paternalistic control: The Consortium Textile de Roubaix-Tourcoing Family allowances in the service of economic reconstruction: The Caisse de Compensation de la Region Parisienne Conclusion Part III: The politics of state intervention in the thirties 6 Engendering the British welfare state Unemployment policies and the enforcement of dependence A new case for children's allowances The place of family policy in the Beveridgian welfare state Conclusion 7 Distributive justice and the family: Toward a parental welfare state "II faut faire naitre": The creation of a pronatalist consensus The progress of state intervention What manner of family? Gender and dependence in the parental welfare state Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index  |
