Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Mercantilist Era
1. The Rise of Mercantilism
2. Economic Assistance Programs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
3. The American Colonies During the Mercantilist Period
4. Significance of the Mercantilist Period
Part II: From Mercantilism to Laissez-Faire
6. The Reform of the Poor Law
7. The American Scene
8. The Foundations of British Policy
9. The Major Ideologies
10. British Welfare Policy
11. America in the Nineteenth Century
12. Ideologies: The Nature of Man and Society
13. Labor, The Poor, and Poverty
14. American Economic Security Programs
Part IV: Toward the Welfare State
15. Introduction
16. Social and Economic Planning
17. Goals of Social Policy
18. Economic Security Policies and Measures
Conclusion
Notes
Index