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Until very recently most people in Britain have taken the welfare state for granted, with social services and benefits available literally from the womb to the tomb. Sociologists were even calling it a “structural tendency” in modern society.
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Williams, M. (1986). Welfare State. In: Society Today. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08845-4_48
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