Strenuous welfarism: Restructuring the welfare labour process

New Labour/Hard Labour?: Restructuring and Resistance Inside the Welfare Industry

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 23-51

  Law, Alex ^a   Mooney, Gerry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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