Fraudulent Lives: Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present (States, People, and the History of Social Change, 9) (Volume 9)
by Steven King
Steven King’s Fraudulent Lives explores the history of imagined welfare cheats, tracing the idea from the Poor Law to the present. The book considers changing perceptions of poverty, welfare, and fraud within the broader history of social change.
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Fraudulent Lives examines the idea of welfare cheats across the period from the Poor Law to the present.
Steven King considers how imaginings of fraud relate to perceptions of poverty and public assistance.
Part of the States, People, and the History of Social Change series, this volume explores changing views of welfare and social change.
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