The Work of Politics : Making a Democratic Welfare State This theoretically innovative book shows how democratic social movements can use the welfare state to challenge domination in society. Cover Half title Title page Making a Democratic Welfare State Copyright information Dedication Contents List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Democracy Domination and the Welfare State Democratic Theory and Democratic Agency Critical Theory and the Critique of Domination The Politics of the Welfare State Overview 1 Domination and the Welfare State: Direct Structural and Abstract Three Worlds Four Faces of Power Direct Domination: Uncontrolled Power Structural Domination: Unjustified Power Abstract Domination: Subjectifying Power Domination and the Welfare State beyond the Weberian Horizon 2 From Calculation to Domination: Max Weber on Democracy and the Welfare State Roots of Reform: The Origins of the German Sciences of State Personality and Value in Max Webers Social Theory Charisma and Domination in Economy and Society Conclusion 3 From Value to World: Martin Heidegger Hannah Arendt and the Politics of World Making From Value to World Class Interest and Property: The Worldly Mediations of the Economic Citizenship As World Making: The Working Class Vision of the Social Conclusion 4 From World to Emancipation: Jürgen Habermas Domination and the Welfare State Revisited Critical Self Reflection and the Critique of Domination Theorizing Structural Domination From Structural to Abstract Domination Gender and Domination in the Swedish Welfare State Conclusion Conclusion: Democratic Theory and the Future of the Welfare State Bibliography Index Blank Page.