Part 1 Development of the welfare state: theories of the welfare state, Jill Quadagno; theories of justice and the welfare state, Nicola Lacey. Part 2 The rhetoric of dependency - wage work and family work: a genealogy of dependency - tracing a keyword of the US welfare state, Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon; masking dependency - the political role of family rhetoric, Martha L.A. Fineman; from equality to social inclusion - New Labour and the welfare state, Ruth Lister. Part 3 The meaning of citizenship: women, citizenship and difference, Nira Yuval-Davis; citizenship and gender - theoretical approaches and historical legacies, Jet Bussemaker and Rian Voet; opposing Prop.187 - undocumented immigrants and the national imagination, Linda S. Bosniak; pious wishes or directly enforceable human rights? - social and economic rights in South Africa's 1996 constitution, Pierre De Vos. Part 4 Images, constructions and identities: race, rat bites and unfit mothers - how media discourse informs welfare legislation debate, Lucy A. Williams; the rhetoric of poverty - their immorality, our helplessness, Thomas Ross; the value of black mothers' work, Dorothy E. Roberts; comment - raising questions about perspectives on black lone motherhood, Miri Song and Rosalind Edwards; social identity and social policy - engagements with postmodern theory, David Taylor. Part 5 Evolving welfare states within a global economy: the international labour organization and the welfare state - institutional effects on national welfare spending, David Strang and Patricia Mei Yin Chang; the making of post-communist social policy - the role of international agencies, Bob Deacon and Michelle Hulse.
