Working outside the box: Community currencies, time banks and social inclusion

Journal of Social Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-71

  Seyfang, Gill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; LABOR PARTICIPATION; LABOR POLICY; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; SOCIAL POLICY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1542756627     PISSN: 00472794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047279403007232     Document Type: Article

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