Is work a route out of poverty: What have New Labour's welfare-to-work measures meant for the working poor in Britain?

The Working Poor in Europe: Employment, Poverty and Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 227-249

  Connolly, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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