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‘Bringing Corporate Welfare In’ – and Pushing Further at the Boundaries of Social Policy: A Reply to Farnsworth (1)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2012

SALLY RUANE
SALLY RUANE*
Affiliation:
School of Applied Social Science, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH email: [email protected]
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Kevin Farnsworth (this volume) exhorts us to recognise that corporations (by which he means any private company regardless of its ownership structure) are recipients of welfare provision in various forms: financial and in-kind, direct and indirect. He argues that a recognition of this by businesses, governments and the social policy community can foster greater complementarity in corporate and individual welfare measures and also potentially legitimise a greater tax contribution from these businesses towards public expenditure.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 23 - 29
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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