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Why Don’t People Want to Work?

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The Cultural Development of Labour

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The labour market in Britain is in crisis and, at its heart, the crisis is one coming out of the cultural nature of labour. It is this issue that we will raise in this first chapter, where we demonstrate the interaction between the economic and the social sides of labour.

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© 1991 Paul Corrigan, Mike Hayes and Paul Joyce

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Corrigan, P., Hayes, M., Joyce, P. (1991). Why Don’t People Want to Work?. In: The Cultural Development of Labour. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21255-2_1

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