Making the core contingent: Professional agency work and its consequences in UK social services

Public Administration

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 331-344

  Hoque, Kim ^a   Kirkpatrick, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; LABOR DIVISION; LABOR MARKET; LABOR SUPPLY; PUBLIC SECTOR; SERVICE PROVISION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 44649190619     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2007.00704.x     Document Type: Article

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