Financialization and the workplace: Extending and applying the disconnected capitalism thesis

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 472-488

  Thompson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

disconnected capitalism; financialization; labour process; regime of accumulation; shareholder value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879375241     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017013479827     Document Type: Article

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