Welfare or workfare?: Partisan re/constructions of Finnish unemployment security in the era of retrenchment

Journal of Language and Politics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-50

  Nygård, Mikael ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Discourse; Rhetoric; Social rights; Unemployment; Unemployment security

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249133400     PISSN: 15692159     EISSN: 15699862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.6.1.04nyg     Document Type: Article

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