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On Thin Ice: Bureaucratic Processes of Monetary Sanctions and Job Insecurity

Michele Cadigan, Gabriela Kirk
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences March 2020, 6 (1) 113-131; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2020.6.1.05
Michele Cadigan
aPhD candidate in sociology at the University of Washington
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