The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975This book examines the social bases of the European welfare state, and the interests developed in or against social policy by various classes of society, during the period 1875 1975 in Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. By analyzing the competing concerns of different social actors that lie behind the evolution of social policy, it explains why some nations had an easy time in developing a generous and solidaristic welfare state while