The Politics of Precarity: Views Beyond the United States

Work and Occupations

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 388-408

  Lee, Ching Kwan ^a   Kofman, Yelizavetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

citizenship; class struggle; globalization; labor politics; precariousness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868009846     PISSN: 07308884     EISSN: 15528464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0730888412446710     Document Type: Article

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