In this episode recorded in September 2024 Steven King and Cat Gower discuss King’s latest book, Fraudulent Lives: Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present (Montreal, 2024) and how his research into Britain’s past welfare systems has shaped his thoughts on directions for future welfare policy provision.

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For more on the book, see the De Gruyter Brill website.

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