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Scroungers

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Scroungers

By James Morrison

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About the book

Scroungers, spongers, parasites ...These are just are some of theterms that are typically used, with increasing frequency, to describe the mostvulnerable in our society, whether they be the sick, the disabled, or theunemployed. Long a popular scapegoat for all manner of social ills, underausterity we've seen hostility towards benefit claimants reach new levels ofhysteria, with the `undeserving poor' blamed for everything from crime to evenrising levels of child abuse.While the tabloid press hasp...Show more

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9781786992147

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Zed Books Ltd

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2019

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