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Citizenship: Opportunities, Rights and Routes to Welfare in Old Age*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Fred Twine
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Abstract

British debates on citizenship often start from an examination of the important work of T.H. Marshall (1950). This paper is no exception. It is argued that Marshall confuses ‘rights’ and ‘opportunities’ within his notion of civil rights. This critique is then developed in terms of Titmuss' concept of the ‘social division of welfare’ so as to distinguish different routes to welfare in old age. A distinction is made between a civil opportunity route to occupational pensions and a social rights route to a state earnings related pension. This distinction is then elaborated to tease out some social class and gender dimensions of citizenship and inequality in old age from a life course perspective.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 1992 , pp. 165 - 175
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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