Regulating the new urban poor: Local labour market control in an old industrial city

Space and Polity

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-86

  Helms, Gesa ^a   Cumbers, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; DEINDUSTRIALIZATION; LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY; NEOLIBERALISM; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GLASGOW [SCOTLAND]; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746129586     PISSN: 13562576     EISSN: 14701235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562570600796804     Document Type: Article

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