What Is Social Citizenship?

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As time went on, the welfare state and the labor movement continued to effect some downward redistribution of wealth. But this apparatus also simultaneously secured the shape of the broader social hierarchy. People without access to that wage or unionized work were excluded in a variety of ways. The public private nature of the welfare state also stratifies the working class rit; people who have access to better benefits typically did through the private sector.

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