Unemployment, informalization and trade union decline in Greece: Questioning analytical and prescriptive orthodoxies

Unemployment in Southern Europe: Coping with the Consequences: Coping with the Consequences

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 60-89

  Seferiades, Seraphim ^a,b  

^a CHURCHILL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315038162-8     Document Type: Chapter

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