Financialization, the Great Recession, and the Stratification of the US Labor Market

Feminist Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 152-180

  Arestis, Philip ^a,b   Charles, Aurélie ^c   Fontana, Giuseppe ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Financialization; gender stratification; Great Recession; race stratification; social norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883552249     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: 14664372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2013.795654     Document Type: Article

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