...James E. O’Neill Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 The Victorian Background to the British Welfare State James E. O Neill For good or ill the British welfare state has arrived. Indeed, it is now approaching its twentieth anniversary, and, though the cries of alarm so noticeable...

... in complete lockdowns, while in the United States it was the Democrats and the liberal left. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 welfare state pandemic melancholy neoliberalism As nation after nation restricted their citizens’ movements, closed schools...

... important institution for rearing children. We can also apply this perspective to the welfare state and look at how the family and the state interact to ensure a particular type of reproduction. Exploring the welfare state as one way of sustaining a capitalist economy, this essay seeks to unpack some...

...Elliot C. Mason In this introduction to the dossier, Elliot C. Mason gives an overview of the rise and fall of the welfare state in Sweden throughout the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries, from the initial protests and mass demands that led to reforms and a general program of state care...

... enrichment in the context of a shrinking welfare state and increasing individualization of society, while also functioning as a social space where individual investors can regroup in an ersatz of community belonging. Focusing on the disaggregated subjectivities left behind by the state-driven dismantling...

...Silvia Federici The article examines the development of the new “debt economy,” especially the expansion of individual debt, in its relation to the main props of the neoliberal agenda: the precarization of work, the dismantling of the “welfare state,” and the increasing financialization...

...” in advocating for the creation of “security zones” and militarized interventions. This approach, rooted in a so‐called caring racism, argues for the protection of the welfare state by excluding and expelling racialized others. Understanding capitalism as requiring inequality, sustained by racism, Sweden's...

...Viola Bao Once seen as a Western frontrunner of social progressivism and equality, Sweden has undergone momentous changes since the aggressive neoliberal dismantling of the postwar universal welfare state model started in the 1980s; today it is a stronghold of the European far right and has one...

... of the welfare state and the absorption of the radical political imagination into homonormative lesbian and gay rights organizing, and the institutionalization of 1960s‐70s feminist, queer, Black, Latinx, and Indigenous campus protest into liberal diversity and inclusion initiatives in the 1990s and 2000s...

... and Compromise . Oxford, UK : Clarendon . Posel Deborah . 2005 . “The Case for a Welfare State: Poverty and the Politics of the Urban African Family in the 1930s and 1940s.” In South Africa's 1940s: Worlds of Possibilities , edited by Dubow Saul Jeeves Alan , 64 – 86 . Cape Town...

... practices—such as sleeping with an infant—to a middle-class concern. This essay turns toward infant sleep as a site where care meets state welfare reform and the neolib- eral reorganization of labor (Piven 2002; Hays 2004; Hardt and Negri 2004; Hardt 1999; Virno 2004; Weeks 2011). Drawing on sleep...

...Andrew M. Bauer; Mona Bhan Ongoing discussions of welfare and human viability that focus on state responsibility to provide care and services rarely consider how new sources of vulnerability are emerging within the context of climate change. Scholars attentive to these processes often use...

...Elizabeth A. Povinelli This essay examines two modes, qualities, and dynamics of lethality in contemporary late liberal societies: the state of killing and letting die. Using contemporary debates in Australia over indigenous health and welfare and new federal security laws, the essay explores...

... in a context of little or no access to state health care. Through the lens of HIV management, the article considers what happens when human care and welfare is refracted through the prism of corporate managerialism, shareholder value, and, more immediately, the relationship between workers and capital...

.... When nonwhite women demanded to receive welfare benefits on a par with white women in the late 1960s, conservative forces responded by repositioning welfare recipients as a below­minimum­ wage labor force, compelled to work in exchange for benefits that were pre­ viously underwritten by the state...

... Domenica , 11 – 27 . Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar . Boris Eileen Klein Jennifer . 2012 . Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Bowman Andrew . 2013 . “ Central Bank-Led Capitalism? ” Seattle...

... with other radical currents to explode entrenched political imaginaries that had occulted gender injus- tice and technicized politics. Insisting that “the personal is political,” they exposed capitalism’s deep androcentrism. In the developmental states of the global South, as in welfare states...

... at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York State. Sara Edenheim is associate professor of history and gender studies at Umeå University, Sweden. Using feminist theory and critical policy analysis, she works on the development of the welfare state and its ongoing changes, with a specific focus...

... (2014) has argued for post-9/11 America in its “war on terror.” Contrasting the post- 9/11 moment with the public mood during the Cold War, when there was also fear (specifically of nuclear war), balanced by a welfare state apparatus devoted to improving conditions of everyday life, Masco sees...

... of quality standards was some­ thing to appeal to the millions of co-operators and to consumers generally. The manifesto promised to foster the Welfare State, to continue the attack on the housing problem, and to abolish all health service charges. Education would be radically reformed; in the interest...