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Social security and wage poverty: historical and policy aspects of supplementing wages in Britain and beyond

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Social security and wage poverty: historical and policy aspects of supplementing wages in Britain and beyond. / Grover, Christopher Geoffrey.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 304 p.

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Grover, CG 2016, Social security and wage poverty: historical and policy aspects of supplementing wages in Britain and beyond. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

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Grover, C. G. (2016). Social security and wage poverty: historical and policy aspects of supplementing wages in Britain and beyond. Palgrave Macmillan.

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Grover CG. Social security and wage poverty: historical and policy aspects of supplementing wages in Britain and beyond. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 304 p.

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Grover, Christopher Geoffrey. / Social security and wage poverty : historical and policy aspects of supplementing wages in Britain and beyond. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 304 p.

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