Part-time working in the 'super-service' era: labour force restructuring in the UK food retailing industry during the late 1980s and early 1990s

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 223-234

  Shackleton, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; LABOUR MARKET; PART-TIME WORK; RETAILING; WORKING PRACTICE;

UK;

EID: 0031722470     PISSN: 09696989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-6989(97)00014-3     Document Type: Article

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