From precarious labor to precarious economy? Planning for precarity in Singapore's creative economy

City, Culture and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 55-64

  Kong, Lily ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Creative economy; Economic planning; Education; Freelancers; Labor organization; Singapore

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960837547     PISSN: 18779166     EISSN: 18779174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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