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- Publisher:
- Bristol University Press
- Online publication date:
- September 2022
- Print publication year:
- 2000
- Online ISBN:
- 9781847425164
- Subjects:
- Socio-Legal Studies, Law
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Over the last three decades, Britain has witnessed an unprecedented rise in the number of people receiving welfare benefits that has provoked fears of a growing underclass and mass welfare dependency. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the reasons for this growth and subjects notions of welfare dependency to empirical test.
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