Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: The Institutional Frameworks of Social Welfare
1. Egoism and Altruism: A Critique of the Divergence
2. Family and Community
3. Nationalism and Internationalism
4. Social Change and Social Welfare
5. Patterns of Exchange in Social Welfare
Part II: Capitalism, Socialism and Collectivism
6. Welfare and the Free Market
7. The Collectivist Reaction
8. Social Change and Social Policy in Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution
9. Community and Social Welfare in America before the First World War
10. Settlement, Migration and the Search for Welfare
11. A Comparative Typology of Social Welfare
12. Three Models of Social Welfare
Bibliography
Subject Index
Name Index
Biography
Robert (Bob) Pinker served his academic apprenticeship in Richard Titmuss’s department at the LSE from the late 1950s under Brian Abel-Smith and Peter Townsend, as a research worker and a higher degree student. Successive academic appointments followed at Goldsmiths College, Chelsea College and then the LSE, from where he retired in 1996 as Professor of Social Administration.
