Social contradictions in informational capitalism: The case of Finnish wage earners and their labor market situation

Information Society

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 333-343

  Blom, Raimo ^a   Melin, Harri ^a   Pyöriä, Pasi ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Education; Finland; Informational knowledge work; Knowledge; Social class; Social divisions; Social mobility; Social polarization; Symbolic skills; Work situation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036815331     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240290075183     Document Type: Article

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