"Flexible" workplace practices: Evidence from a nationally representative survey

Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 99-115

  Gittleman, Maury ^a   Horrigan, Michael ^a   Joyce, Mary ^a  

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DOI: 10.1177/001979399805200106     Document Type: Article

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