Pushing the envelope: The 'informalization' of labour in post-communist new EU member states

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 551-564

  Woolfson, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34548552939     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017007080016     Document Type: Article

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