Promoting 'Employ ability': The changing subject of welfare reform in the UK

Critical Discourse Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-54

  Connor, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; Employability; Neo liberal; Semiotics; Social policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953070869     PISSN: 17405904     EISSN: 17405912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17405900903453930     Document Type: Article

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