On being a Welfare Consumer in a Consumer Society
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Social Policy and Society
- Vol. 2 (1) , 65-71
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1474746403001088
Abstract
This article focuses on two aspects of the real or imagined conflict between welfarism and consumerism; whether the experience of being a welfare user is somehow changed by living in a society in which people may see themselves less as workers and more as consumers; and whether the providers of welfare services and benefits can or should treat their users more like consumers than beneficiaries or even citizens with welfare rights.Keywords
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