Marginalization and subsidized individualism : the sale of council houses in the restructuring of the British welfare state.

Presents initial results of a major research project on the nature and impact of housing privatization in Britain, tracing the links between council house sales and local labour markets, and criticizing the concept of privatization, preferring to stress the emergence of new forms of 'state subsidized individualism'. Concludes that claims that the division between housing tenures now developing marks a new source of stratification are unsubstantiated. More general conclusions are presented on the nature of welfare state restructuring now occurring in Britain and the contradictions it entails.-after Editor