Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Preface 11
5. 1. Introduction 13
6. 2. Secular and purist origins of enlightened capitalism 27
7. 3. Victorian England 41
8. 4. ‘The American Way’ 67
9. 5. Worker colonies and settlements , joy in work, and enlightened entrepreneurs in Germany 105
10. 6. France 133
11. 7. A comparison of welfare work between Great Britain, the US, Germany, and France 161
12. 8. Learning from past experience 173
13. Bibliography 181
14. Index 193