The Welfare State: Past, Present, Future
Preface Ann Katherine Isaacs	p. VII
Introduction Henrik Jensen	XI
TODAY’S WELFARE STATES
The Welfare State, the Individual and the “Revolution of Rising Expectations” Henrik Jensen	1
The Swedish Welfare State: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow John Rogers	13
Histories of the Welfare State Pat Thane	27
The Danish Welfare State: the Legislative Framework and Future Prospects Bent Greve	41
PROBLEMS, PROGRAMMES AND MODELS
Breadwinner Models and historical Models. Transitions in Labour Relations and Labour Markets in Belgium, 19th – 20th Centuries Eric Vanhaute	59
Women on the Waterfront. Changes in the Gendered Structures of Working Life in Finland Tapio Bergholm, Kari Teräs	77
Bismark and the Origins of the Modern Welfare State in Century Germany Heide Barmeyer	87
Roman Homes. The Housing Question in ‘Roma Capitale’ Taina Syrjämaa	111
The dead End of a New Road: the Failure of a Cultural Welfare State Policy in The Netherlands, 1945-1946 Tity de Vries	127
THE LONGER PERSPECTIVE
Grain Distribution in Late Republican Rome Alessandro Cristofori	141
Poverty, the Poor and Welfare in Medieval Urban Culture Lucas Burkart	155
Welfare in an Italian City-State: Siena and the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala Ann Katherine Isaacs	169
The Poor and the Sick in Pre-Famine Ireland: Charity and the State Laurence M. Geary	187
Roots of the Danish Welfare State? Benevolent Societies and Homes in 19th Century Copenhagen Karin Lützen	201
PLATES	213