This book uses data from Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden to rethink welfare policy.

This book explains why countries have adopted different policies for working parents through a comparative historical study of four nations: France, the Netherl

In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casew

On weekday afternoons, dismissal bells signal not just the end of the school day but also the beginning of another important activity: the federally funded afte

Talks about the politicising of parenthood in the Scandinavian welfare states. This book focuses on the relationship between parents and the state, and the rene