Robert Walker, Marilyn Howard

Broschiertes Buch

The making of a welfare class?

Benefit receipt in Britain

Beschreibung

Over the last three decades Britain has witnessed an unprecedented rise in the number of people receiving welfare benefits that has provoked fears of a growing underclass and mass welfare dependency. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the reasons for this growth and subjects notions of welfare dependency to empirical test.

Autor

Robert Walker: Born 1954. BA in Hotel Management 1972-75 from the Scottish Hotel School, University of Strathclyde. Recruited through the British Government's Overseas Development Administration (ODA) as a lecturer in Hotel Management at the Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka, Zambia on a 2 year contract starting 1980. Contracts extended and renewed. 6 years' later returned to UK overland in Land rover.Moved career into Training and Management Development. 1992 completed Master's in People Development.20 years in HR development.2008-2011 Organisation Development Manager in Saudi Arabia.Now retired but just back from 10 months travelling in his Land Rover around Southern Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9781861342355
• ISBN-10: 1861342357
• Artikelnr.: 24992146