Personalising poverty: Parental determinism and the big society agenda

Class Inequality in Austerity Britain: Power, Difference and Suffering

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 90-110

  Gillies, Val ^a  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137016386     Document Type: Chapter

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