Toward a review and reconceptualization of the work/family literature

Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 125-182

  Barnett, Rosalind C ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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