Request For Info On Origins of European Welfare States

[Lew]

In article <36B242D3.4F0E at gte.net>, Paul Henry Rosenberg <rad at gte.net>
writes
>I'm interested in a concise overview of the origins of European welfare
>states, with or without comparison to the United States.  
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>I'm more interested in descriptive (including quantitative) detail than
>ideological position, though of course the better the ideological
>insight, the better.  But what I really need is a strong sense of the
>basic outlines of historical developments.

Try _Foundations of the Welfare State_ by Pat Thane. Published by
Longman, 1982.

-- 
Lew