The Nordic model of welfare : a historical reappraisal / edited by Niels Finn Christiansen ... [et al.] - Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006. - 432 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-427).

Introduction / Niels Finn Christiansen & Pirjo Markkola -- The power of international comparison : a perspective on the making and challenging of the Nordic welfare state / Pauli Kettunen -- Constructing Nordic welfare? Nordic social political cooperation 1919-1955 / Klaus Petersen -- Limited universalism : unemployment insurance in Northern Europe 1900-2000 / Nils Edling -- Old age pensions in the Nordic countries, 1880-2000 / Klaus Petersen & Klas êAmark -- Milk mothers and marriage : family policy formation in Norway and its neighbouring countries in the twentieth century / Inger Elisabeth Haavet -- The hospital sector : a four-country comparison of organisational and political development / Per Haave -- Welfare, health and the working class woman in early 20th century Finland / Riitta Oittinen -- A leap in the dark : from a large actor to a large area approach : the Joint Committee of the Nordic Social Democractic Labour Movement and the crisis of the Nordic model / Urban Lundberg -- Women's labour force participation in the Nordic countries during the twentieth century / Klas êAmark --Conclusions : Niels Finn Christiansen & Klas êAmark -- Appendix: Data on population and politics in the Nordic countries / compiled by Nils Edling.

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Welfare state--History.--Scandinavia


Scandinavia--Social policy--History.

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