Capitalists, workers and health: Illness as a side-effect of profit-making

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 117-128

  Scambler, Graham ^a  

^a Centre for Sociological Theory and Research on Health   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capitalism; Class; Command; Global financial crisis; Health inequalities; Pensions crisis

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650249504     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/sth.2009.5     Document Type: Article

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