Big society or broken society?: Food banks in the UK

Anthropology Today

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 5-9

  Caplan, Pat ^a  

^a Goldsmiths ^*  (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84956635171     PISSN: 0268540X     EISSN: 14678322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12223     Document Type: Article

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