Political economy of informalization

European Societies

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-23

  Slavnic, Zoran ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Informal economy; Post Fordist transformation; Recommodification of labour

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951052450     PISSN: 14616696     EISSN: 14698307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616690903042724     Document Type: Article

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