The Making of a Welfare Class?: Benefit Receipt in Britain

by Robert Walker

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.The making of a welfare class? provides the first comprehensive analysis of the reasons for this growth and subjects notions of welfare dependency and the underclass to empirical test. It focuses on four principal groups of benefit recipients - children...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861342357
• ISBN13: 9781861342355
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"