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• An End to Welfare Rights: The Rediscovery of Independence (c1999), by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)
• Benefit Dependency: How Welfare Undermines Independence (c1998), by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)
• Memoir on Pauperism (London: Civitas, c1997), by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. by Seymour Drescher, contrib. by Gertrude Himmelfarb (PDF at Civitas)
• Community Without Politics: A Market Approach to Welfare Reform (c1996), by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)
• Ending Dependency: Lessons From Welfare Reform in the USA (c2001), by Douglas J. Besharov, Peter Germanis, Jay Hein, Donald K. Jonas, and Amy L. Sherman, contrib. by Alan Deacon (PDF at Civitas)
• Stakeholder Welfare (c1996), by Frank Field, ed. by Alan Deacon, contrib. by Peter Alcock, David G. Green, and Melanie Phillips (PDF at Civitas)
• Welfare, Work and Poverty: Lessons from Recent Reforms in the USA and the UK (c2000), ed. by David Smith, contrib. by John Clark, Norman Dennis, Jay Hein, and Richard Pryke (PDF at Civitas)
• The Careless State: Wealth and Welfare in Britain Today (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), by Paul Graham Taylor (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• The Book of the Bastiles: or, The History of the Working of the New Poor Law (London: J. Stephens, 1841), by G. R. Wythen Baxter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Welfare Titans: How Lloyd George and Gordon Brown Compare; and Other Essays on Welfare Reform (c2002), by Frank Field (PDF at Civitas)

• How to Help Cases of Distress: A Handy Reference Book for Almoners and Others (fourth edition; London: Charity Organisation Society and Longmans, Green and Co., 1890), by Charles Stewart Loch (page images at HathiTrust)

• Before Beveridge: Welfare Before the Welfare State (c1999), ed. by David Gladstone (PDF at Civitas)

• The Poor in England, 1700-1850: An Economy of Makeshifts (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), ed. by Steven King and Alannah Tomkins (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)

• London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800 (open access online edition, 2020), by Tim Hitchcock and Robert Brink Shoemaker (Javascript-dependent illustrated HTML at londonlives.org)

• The Book of the Bastiles: or, The History of the Working of the New Poor Law (London: J. Stephens, 1841), by G. R. Wythen Baxter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Quicksilver: or, The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Frank Dadd (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Under the Old Roof, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Child Welfare Movement (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920), by Janet E. Lane-Claypon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Child Welfare Movement (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920), by Janet E. Lane-Claypon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Terrible Sights of London and Labours of Love in the Midst of Them (London: Stanley Rivers and Co., 1870), by Thomas Archer (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• Fiscal Policy and the Family: How the Family Fares in France, Germany and the UK (c2005), by Rebecca O'Neill (PDF at Civitas)

• Welfare Titans: How Lloyd George and Gordon Brown Compare; and Other Essays on Welfare Reform (c2002), by Frank Field (PDF at Civitas)
• The Careless State: Wealth and Welfare in Britain Today (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), by Paul Graham Taylor (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• Schools of Citizenship: Charity and Civic Virtue (c2002), by F. K. Prochaska (PDF at Civitas)

• The Englishwoman's Year Book and Directory (partial serial archives)

• A Girl of the People, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text)
• A Girl of the People: A Novel (Montreal: J. Lovell, c1890), by L. T. Meade (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Octavia Hill and the Social Housing Debate: Essays and Letters (c1998), by Octavia Hill, ed. by Robert Whelan (PDF at Civitas)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Chapters on Social Science as Connected with the Administration of State Charities, by George Leib Harrison (page images at MOA)
• Papers On Out-Door Relief and Tramps, by Francis Wayland (page images at MOA)

• In the Shadow of Plenty: The Biblical Blueprint for Welfare (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press; Nashville et al.: T. Nelson, c1986), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Welfare Reform in California: Results of the 1998 All-County Implementation Survey, by Patricia A. Ebener and Jacob Alex Klerman (PDF files at rand.org)
• Welfare Reform in California: State and County Implementation of CalWORKs in the First Year, by Gail Zellman, Jacob Alex Klerman, Elaine Reardon, Donna Farley, Nicole Humphrey, Tammi Chun, and Paul Steinberg (PDF files at rand.org)

• The Quality of Life (Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press, c1993), ed. by Martha C. Nussbaum and Amartya Sen (HTML and PDF files at OUP)

• Europe's Welfare Burden: The Case for Reform (c2002), by Benny Carlson, Alan Deacon, Hans Hoogervorst, Wilfried Prewo, and Jason A. Turner (PDF at Civitas)

• Unemployment Insurance and Relief in Germany (New York: National Industrial Conference Board, 1932), by National Industrial Conference Board (page images at HathiTrust)

• Labour on the Land: Containing a Plan for the Employment of the Destitute Poor on Agricultural Occupations; With Observations on the Working of the Present Systems (1846), by S. W. Blackall (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The White Welfare State: The Racialization of U.S. Welfare Policy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Deborah E. Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ending Dependency: Lessons From Welfare Reform in the USA (c2001), by Douglas J. Besharov, Peter Germanis, Jay Hein, Donald K. Jonas, and Amy L. Sherman, contrib. by Alan Deacon (PDF at Civitas)
• Electronic Delivery of Public Assistance Benefits: Technology Options and Policy Issues (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• America's Social Revolution (c2001), by Melanie Phillips (PDF at Civitas)
• Welfare, Work and Poverty: Lessons from Recent Reforms in the USA and the UK (c2000), ed. by David Smith, contrib. by John Clark, Norman Dennis, Jay Hein, and Richard Pryke (PDF at Civitas)
• Investing in Our Children: What We Know and Don't Know About the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions, by Lynn A. Karoly, Peter W. Greenwood, Susan S. Everingham, Jill Houbeé, M. Rebecca Kilburn, C. Peter Rydell, Matthew Sanders, and James Chiesa (PDF files at rand.org)

• Behind the Bars (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1871), by Adeline T. P. Lunt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Child Health and Human Rights (1994), by James P. Grant (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Importance of Fathers in the Healthy Development of Children (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by Jeffrey Rosenberg and William Bradford Wilcox (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• Institutional Care and Placing-Out: The Place of Each in the Care of Dependent Children (Chicago: Marks Nathan Jewish Orphan Home, 1930), by Elias L. Trotzkey (page images at HathiTrust)
• That Last Waif: or, Social Quarantine (New York: F. A. Stokes co., 1909), by Horace Fletcher (Gutenberg text)
• Marriage and the Child (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1940), by James H. S. Bossard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Impact of Armed Conflict on Children, by Graça Machel (HTML with commentary at UNICEF)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.