Acknowledgements; Introduction: On dependence and distribution; Part I. Programs and Precendents: 1. The family in question: state and family in prewar thought and politics; 2. The impact of the Great War; 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; 4. Family policy as 'Socialism in our Time'? The failed campaign for children's allowances in Britain; 5. Business strategies and the family: the development of family allowances in France, 1920–1936; Part III. The Politics of State Intervention in the Thirties: 6. Engendering the British Welfare State; 7. Distributive justice and the family: toward a parental welfare state; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
A comparative analysis of social policies in Britain and France between 1914 and 1945.
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