Capabilities, human rights and the challenge to workfare

Beyond the Workfare State: Labour Markets, Equalities and Human Rights

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 159-184

  Carpenter, Mick ^a   Speeden, Stuart ^b   Griffin, Colin ^a   Walters, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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