Employment and Support Allowance: capability, personalization and disabled people in the UK

Chris Grover; Linda Piggott

doi:10.1080/15017419.2012.686890

Employment and Support Allowance: capability, personalization and disabled people in the UK

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Volume 15 (2013): Issue 2

By: Chris Grover and Linda Piggott

Open Access

|May 2013

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