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Not Only the Poor: The Middle Classes and the Welfare State

Not Only the Poor: The Middle Classes and the Welfare State

Goodin, Robert E.
Le Grand, Julian

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Series: Routledge Library Editions: Welfare and the State

General SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1138598631
ISBN13: 9781138598638
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 15 2020
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Originally published in 1987 Not Only the Poor explores the self-interested involvement of the non-poor in the welfare state, particularly the middle class. Using evidence from Britain, America, and Australia, they show that the non-poor were crucial in the founding of the welfare state, and in all three countries the non-poor benefit extensively from key welfare programmes, including those ostensibly targeted on the poor. Goodin and Le Grand conclude that the beneficial involvement of the non-poor in the welfare state is probably inevitable, but this may be no bad thing, depending on the alternative and on the nature of the egalitarian ideal adopted.

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