**** Abstract

**** Epigraph

*** Introduction

*** Origins and history

**** The foundations of the Welfare State

**** The development of the contemporary Welfare State

**** The post-war Welfare State

*** The efficacy of the Welfare State

*** Welfare and anarchy

**** Against the State — Right or Left?

**** The case against the State

**** Social welfare and the anarchist alternative

**** Here to there

*** Conclusion