Page 10 to 25: Antoine Perrier and Lola Zappi – Introduction. From the city to the colonial empire: new scales of the mixed welfare economy (19th-20th centuries) | Page 26 to 47: Eléonore Chanlat-Bernard – Regulating a social crisis in a colonial situation: assistance to famine refugees in Calcutta in 1866 | Page 48 to 71: Antoine Perrier – Muslim benevolent societies in Morocco: taxation, donations and public subsidies in the financing of action once morest poverty (1920s – 1950s) | Page 72 to 92: Lola Zappi – The strong arm of the social state: the institutionalization of social services in the interwar period | Page 94 to 112: Marion Fontaine – From paternalism to the Welfare State? Social policies and nationalization in the mines (1940s – 1950s) | Page 116 to 155: Vincent Viet – Paul Faury, The case of bad coal. Labor inspector Jean Cavaillé leads the investigation | Page 159 to 161: Virginie De Luca Barrusse – Édouard Fuster (1869-1935) and the construction of the social State | Page 162 to 164: Bruno Dumons – Making society. Philanthropy in Geneva and its transnational networks around 1900 | Page 165 to 170: Vincent Viet – One hundred years of under-recognition of occupational diseases | Page 171 to 174: Patrick Fridenson – History of social policies. 30 years of IGAS expertise.