Page The Authors Editor’s Introduction Welfare Before the Welfare State David Gladstone The Voluntary Sector in the Mixed Economy of Welfare Jane Lewis The Friendly Societies and Adam-Smith Liberalism David G. Green Private Provision and Public Welfare: Health Insurance Between the Wars Noel Whiteside Political Thought and the Welfare State 1870-1940: An Intellectual Framework for British Social Policy Jose Harris The Poor Law Reports of 1909 and the Social Theory of the Charity Organisation Society