Caught between virtue and ideological necessity. A century of pension policies in the UK

Review of Political Economy

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 427-448

  Walker, Alan ^a   Foster, Liam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33746257762     PISSN: 09538259     EISSN: 14653982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09538250600797990     Document Type: Review

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