A retreat from permanent employment?: Accounting for the rise of professional agency work in UK public services

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 649-666

  Kirkpatrick, Ian ^a   Hoque, Kim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency workers; Free agent perspective; Portfolio careers; Public sector; Social care

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751424943     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017006069806     Document Type: Article

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