Employer strategies and the fragmentation of local employment: The case of contracting out local authority services

Geographies of Labour Market Inequality

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 110-128

  Reimer, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

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