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‘The most obvious division of society is into rich and poor; and it is no less obvious that the number of the former bear a great disproportion to those of the latter. The whole business of the poor is to administer to the idleness, folly and luxury of the rich; and that of the rich, in return, is to find the best methods of confirming the slavery and increasing the burdens of the poor.’ (Edmund Burke, from A Vindication of Natural Society, 1756.)
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Lister, R. (1989). Social Security. In: McCarthy, M. (eds) The New Politics of Welfare. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20384-0_5
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