| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: American Social Policies: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | State Formation and Social Policy in the United States | 11 |
| Ch. 2 | America's First Social Security System: The Expansion of Benefits for Civil War Veterans | 37 |
| Ch. 3 | Gender and the Origins of Modern Social Policies in Britain and the United States | 72 |
| Ch. 4 | The Road to Social Security | 136 |
| Ch. 5 | Redefining the New Deal: World War II and the Development of Social Provision in the United States | 167 |
| Ch. 6 | The Limits of the New Deal System and the Roots of Contemporary Welfare Dilemmas | 209 |
| Ch. 7 | "Brother Can You Spare a Job?" Work and Welfare in the United States | 228 |
| Ch. 8 | Targeting within Universalism: Politically Viable Policies to Combat Poverty in the United States | 250 |
| Ch. 9 | Is the Time Finally Ripe? Health Insurance Reforms in the 1990s | 275 |
| Ch. 10 | From Social Security to Health Security? | 293 |
| Conclusion: Remaking U.S. Social Policies for the 21st Century | 297 |
| Index | 313 |
