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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am heavily indebted to Professor Peter Golding and Sue Middleton for
Images of Welfare, their ground-breaking, multifaceted anatomy of an
earlier ‘scrounger’ panic, against which all other works on this subject
should be judged. As Peter observed in a recent email exchange, the
‘enduring relevance’ of the ‘scrounger’ folk-devil is enough to leave one
‘perennially depressed’ (though that is not my aim!). Thanks are also due
for the sage advice and feedback I received from other academics (and
editors) in relation to the various conference papers, articles and proposal
drafts involved in this book’s gestation. Chief among these have been my
editor at Zed Books, Ken Barlow; my erstwhile PhD supervisor, Professor
James Curran, at Goldsmiths; Dr Justin Schlosberg, at Birkbeck; Jakob
Horstmann, at Transcript Verlag; Professor Chas Critcher, at Sheffield
Hallam; Dr Stuart Waiton, at Abertay; Professor Bob Franklin, at Cardiff;
Staffordshire University’s inestimable, irrepressible Professor Mick Temple;
and Samira Ahmed (surely Britain’s most cerebral journalist).
I also want to thank the family, friends and colleagues who have
encouraged and emboldened me by repeatedly reassuring me that this was
a project (and cause) worth pursuing − despite all the competing
commitments and pressures that consistently threatened to derail it. Of
friends and colleagues, my thanks go out especially to my political
soulmate and fellow traveller, Justin McKeating, and to Dr Fiona Smith
and Dr Elizabeth Tait at Robert Gordon University. Endless thanks, also, to
my beautiful wife, Annalise, and three children, who have tolerated my
‘working holidays’ (and evenings and weekends) over the past two years. I
also owe everything to my father, Andrew, who endured years of
involuntary unemployment and poverty during the 1980s, and my late
mother, Helen, who stood at his side throughout, loving and resolute to
the end. Above all, though, I want to thank my brother, Alan Morrison: a
gifted and passionate poet,
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