White-Collar Proletariat?: Braverman, the Deskilling/Upskilling of Social Work and the Paradoxical Life of the Agency Care Manager

Journal of Social Work

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 93-114

  Carey, Malcolm ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

agency; care management; crisis; flexibility; proletarianization; social work; work intensification

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249141793     PISSN: 14680173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468017307075992     Document Type: Article

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