Introduction: On dependence and distribution

Part I. Programs and Precendents: 1. The family in question: state and family in prewar thought and politics

2. The impact of the Great War

Part II. Reworking the Family Wage in the 1920s: 3. Family policy as women's emancipation? The failed campaign for endowment of motherhood in Britain

4. Family policy as 'Socialism in our Time'? The failed campaign for family allowances in Britain

5. Business strategies and the family: the development of family allowances in France, 1920-1936

Part III. The Politics of State Intervention in the 1930s: 6. Engendering the British Welfare State

7. Distributive justice and the family: toward a parental welfare state

Conclusion

Appendices

Bibliography.