Forming Nation, Framing Welfare

This academic text explores the ways in which state involvement, family structures, and philanthropy shaped social welfare and the nation. It draws on various case studies dealing with the family, education, poverty, and unemployment to analyze social policies. The volume investigates the intersections between images of the nation and social welfare’s purposes, providers, and beneficiaries. It offers a critical and stimulating introduction to the historical and structural development of social welfare in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries