Meaningful Patterns of Activity Amongst the Long-term Inner City Unemployed: A Qualitative Study

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 377-396

  Ball, Myfanwy ^a   Orford, Jim ^b  

^a HM Prison ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity; Unemployment; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036451493     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.692     Document Type: Article

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