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 traces the changing idea of the welfare cheat from the Poor Law to the present. Focusing on how fraud, poverty, and deservingness have been imagined, this volume considers the relationship between people, states, and social change across history.
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Fraudulent Lives examines representations of welfare cheats from the era of the Poor Law to the present.
Steven King explores how ideas about poverty, fraud, and deservingness have been imagined across changing social and historical contexts.
The book places these evolving perceptions within a broader history of social change involving states and people.
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