Acts of distrust? Support workers’ experiences in PFI hospital schemes

New Labour/Hard Labour?: Restructuring and Resistance Inside the Welfare Industry

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 75-92

  Ruane, Sally ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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