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Family, Dependence and the Origins of the Welfare State, Britain and France 1914–1945Susan Pedersen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), £40.00. ISBN 0–521–41989–1

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Contemporary European History , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , November 1995 , pp. 339 - 343
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References

1 Social Insurance and Allied Services, Cmd. 6404 (London: HMSO, 1942), 6.

2 Koven, S. and Michel, S., eds, Mothers of a New World, Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States (London: Routledge, 1993).Google Scholar

3 Susan Kingsley Kent has supported the view outlined here by Pedersen but Les Garner, Stepping Stones to Liberty, and Sandra Stanley Holton, Feminism and Democracy have both argued that there is a more conservative and domestic ideology to the majority of feminist pronouncements.

4 Mrs Reves, Pember, Round About a Pound a Week (1911).Google Scholar

5 Thom, D., ‘Freed from their chains, women workers in London’ in Jones, G. Stedman and Feldman, D., eds, Metropolis (London: Routledge, 1985).Google Scholar

6 B. Drake, evidence to the War Cabinet Committee on Women in Industry, IWM, transcripts of evidence.

7 Pat Thane, ‘Visions of Gender in the Making of the British Welfare State: The Case of Women in the British Labour Party and Social Policy, 1906–1945’, and also for an argument which fully supports Pedersen's case in the same collection, Lewis, Jane, ‘Models of Equality for Women: The Case of State Support for Children in Twentieth-Century Britain’, in Bock, G. and Thane, P., eds, Maternity and Gender Policies. Women and the Rise of European Welfare States (London: Routledge, 1991).Google Scholar