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Publication details [#51781]

Marston, Greg. 2008. A war on the poor: Constructing welfare and work in the twenty-first century. Critical Discourse Studies 5 (4) : 359–370.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

behavior | critical discourse analysis | economics | unemployed worker | value

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Drawing on a semi-longitudinal study involving long-term unemployed Australian citicens, this paper explores how low-income people in advanced capitalist economies, respond to problematised citizenship discourse, picturing them as 'welfare-dependent' and 'work shy'.