'Talk of Shirkers Echoes Victorian Past'
From Economists View
January 10, 2013 - 6:25pm
What causes poverty?: Talk of ‘shirkers’ echoes Victorian past, by Tristram Hunt: ...the debate about how to cut back Britain’s spiraling social security system is ... replete with echoes of the past. The language of “workers” versus “shirkers” is a straight...
January 10, 2013 - 6:25pm
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