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• 1. Approaches to Welfare 2. Theories of Welfare 3. Social Security and Society 4. Social Security: Beveridge and After 5. Not Only the Poor: The Middle Classes and the Welfare State 6. Social Welfare and the Failure of the State: Centralised Social Services and Participatory Alternatives 7. The Unemployment Services: A Report Prepared for the Fabian Society 8. Self Help in Health and Social Welfare: England and West Germany 9. Automatic Poverty 10. Freedom and the Welfare State 11. Paupers 12. Privatisation and the Welfare State 13. The Strategy of Equality: Redistribution and the Social Services 14. The Role of Voluntary Organisations in Social Welfare 15. The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany: 1850-1950 16. Contradictions of the Welfare State 17. Welfare State and Welfare Society: Illusion and Reality 18. The Welfare State: Its Aims, Benefits and Costs 19. Sociology and Social Welfare 20. The Origins of British Social Policy 21. Social Welfare: Why and How? 22. Talking About Welfare 23. The Unservile State: Essays in Liberty and Welfare 24. Pressure for the Poor: The Poverty Lobby and Policy Making 25. The Politics of the Welfare State