On the Persistence of Labour Market Insecurity and Slow Growth in the US: Reckoning with the Waltonist Growth Regime

New Political Economy

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 543-564

  Vidal, Matt ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

financialisation; inequality; low wage work; Marxist regulation theory; slow growth accumulation regime; wage stagnation

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LABOR MARKET; MACROECONOMICS; MARXISM; POLITICAL ECONOMY; THEORETICAL STUDY; WAGE;

UNITED STATES;

AMADINA FASCIATA;

EID: 84871028039     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: 14699923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2012.630459     Document Type: Article

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