Downsizing and the new American workplace: Rethinking the high performance paradigm

Review of Radical Political Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1-22

  Biewener, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0009578513     PISSN: 04866134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/048661349702900402     Document Type: Article

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