Conceptualizing unemployment in a period of atypical employment: A critical realist perspective

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 45-69

  Fleetwood, Steve ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atypical employment; Critical realism; Deductive method; Methodology; Ontology; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011856537     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00346760010017500     Document Type: Review

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