New Labour, ‘modernisation’ and welfare worker resistance

New Labour/Hard Labour?: Restructuring and Resistance Inside the Welfare Industry

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-22

  Mooney, Gerry ^a   Law, Alex ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

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