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Originally published in 1968, Social Security: Beveridge and After concentrates on the development of social security in the U.K. since the Beveridge report.

Originally published in 1981, Automatic Poverty argues that Britain¿s economic decline is symptomatic of an advanced stage of industrialisation in which productive processes are increasingly mechanised, but output remains static.

Originally published in 1987 Not Only the Poor explores the self-interested involvement of the non-poor in the welfare state, particularly the middle class.

Originally published in 1981 Social Welfare and the Failure of the State looks at how the 1980s have ushered in an intensification on the debate of the role of the state in social welfare.

Originally published in 1957, The Unservile State looks at the theme of liberty in the Welfare State.

Originally published in 1994 The Politics of the Welfare State looks at how the privatization and marketization of education, health and welfare services in the past decade have produced a concept of welfare that is markedly different from that envisaged when the welfare state was initially created.

Originally published in 1987 Pressure for the Poor looks at the debate surrounding the role of pressure groups in policy making.

Originally published in 1984 Theories of Welfare looks at theories of social administration developed in different social science disciplines.

Originally published in 1983 Approaches to Welfare provides a unique introduction to the study of social welfare in Britain.

Originally published in 1989, Self Help in Health and Social Welfare reports developments and initiatives from England and West Germany, covering issues such as the institutional context, evaluating self-help, public policy and support for self-help.

Originally published in 1980, Social Welfare: Why and How? is a collection of papers contributing to the subject of welfare philosophy, and to philosophising about and doing welfare.

Originally published in 1987, Sociology and Social Welfare looks at the relationship between state and welfare in the context of a wider sociological analysis of state and society in post-war Britain.

Originally published in 1976, Freedom and the Welfare State, critiques the Welfare State in Britain and analyses the relationship between freedom and welfare.

Originally published in 1984, Privatisation and the Welfare State brings together a distinguished set of experts on the Welfare State and its main policy areas of health care, housing, education and transport.

Originally published in 1978 The Origins of British Social Policy stresses the complexity of conscious and unconscious influences upon policy, which include such political imperatives as the wish to maintain social order, to and to preserve and strengthen the family as a central social institution.

Originally published in 1940, The Unemployment Services provides a thorough examination of the system of unemployment relief. The book looks at fundamental proposals for the extension of necessary provisions for improving the conditions of the unemployed, and their dependents.

Originally published in 1976 Talking About Welfare is a collection of essays providing a general survey of the problems facing social welfare.

Originally published in 1973, Social Security and Society examines of the dominant forces that form the British social security system and argues that social security provision is not the result of concern felt by the dominant groups in society.

Originally published in 1987 Not Only the Poor explores the self-interested involvement of the non-poor in the welfare state, particularly the middle class.

Originally published in 1976, Welfare State and Welfare Society distinguishes the welfare state from the welfare society, and shows that there is often a yawning gulf between public policy and how people feel, think and behave.

Originally published in 1981 The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany 1850-1950 is an edited collection on the history and future prospects of the modern welfare state.

Originally published in 1973, The Welfare State offers an overall conspectus of current policy issues against the historical background from which they arise.

Originally published in 1984, Contradictions of the Welfare State is the first collection of Claus Offe¿s essays to appear in a single volume in English. The political writings in this volume are primarily concerned with the origins of the present difficulties of welfare capitalist states.

Originally published in 1976 Talking About Welfare is a collection of essays providing a general survey of the problems facing social welfare.

Originally published in 1984, Contradictions of the Welfare State is centrally concerned with the origins of the difficulties of welfare capitalist states, and why these states failed to manage the socio-political problems and conflicts generated by late capitalist societies.

Originally published in 1987, Sociology and Social Welfare looks at the relationship between state and welfare in the context of a wider sociological analysis of state and society in post-war Britain.

Originally published in 1984, Privatisation and the Welfare State brings together a distinguished set of experts on the Welfare State and its main policy areas of health care, housing, education and transport.

Originally published in 1968, Social Security: Beveridge and After concentrates on the development of social security in the U.K. since the Beveridge report.