Tackling concentrations of worklessness: Highlighting the limits of work-focused organisational cultures in the UK

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 563-582

  Fletcher, Del Roy ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; JOB SEARCH; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; POLICY MAKING; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; SHEFFIELD [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 46849102730     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c0631     Document Type: Article

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