Beyond Dependency: Welfare States and the Configuration of Social Inequality

The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 327-349

  Haney, Lynne ^a   Rogers Dillon, Robin ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Interdependence; Manpower demonstration research corporation (MDRC); Social inequality; State resources; Welfare states

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349882626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996973.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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