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While comparative case studies have examined the importance of women as agents in creating & transforming the welfare state, & cross-national research has confirmed that women's labor force participation appears to both shape & be shaped by welfare policies & spending, little cross-national research has explored the roles of women activists in policy adoption. This research explores the case of the adoption of family allowance policies during the interwar & WWII/postwar period in 18 large industrialized welfare states using a qualitative comparative analysis that traces different "paths" to family allowance adoption. The strength of working-class movements plays a key role in creating family allowances in almost every context, but is combined with two different factors -- Catholic populations (for countries such as France, the Netherlands, & Austria) & women's movements within the Left (for countries such as the UK, Sweden, & Norway). This research illustrates that in certain contexts, & at certain time periods, women activists played a key role in creating family policies, presenting a more complete model of women's roles in welfare state transformation. 3 Tables, 126 References. Adapted from the source document.

Reviews the literature on gender & development, highlighting differences between feminist scholarship & that employing a world-systems perspective, & calling for greater collaboration between the two, though not at the expense of their unique outlooks. Traditional, feminist, & general theories of development in sociology are compared, showing how feminist-oriented research offers an alternative perspective on the functioning of the world economy & women's place within it. The micro-macro debate between feminist & world-systems scholars (respectively) in such research is also examined. 1 Table, 102 References. K. Hyatt Stewart