| List of Tables | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Map of the German Empire, 1871-1914 | |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Ch. 1 | Social Theory and the German Welfare State | 15 |
| Ch. 2 | Toward an Explanation of the Welfare State in Nineteenth-Century Germany | 41 |
| Ch. 3 | The Rise of the Social Question and Social Policy in Nineteenth-Century Germany | 55 |
| Ch. 4 | The Central State in Imperial Germany | 73 |
| Ch. 5 | The Prussian-German Welfare State: Social Policy at the Central Level | 108 |
| Ch. 6 | Municipal Politics and the Local Regulation of the Social until the 1890s: Poor Relief and Worker Policy | 149 |
| Ch. 7 | Change in Municipal Politics and the Regulation of the Social after the 1890s: Scientific Social Work and Proto-Corporatism | 188 |
| Ch. 8 | Conclusion | 215 |
| Appendix: Table of Complete Regression Models for Poor-Relief Spending and Unemployment Insurance: German Cities | 221 |
| Notes | 223 |
| References | 309 |
| Index | 369 |
