Rethinking post-fordism: The meaning of workplace flexibility

Sociological Theory

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 68-101

  Vallas, Steven P ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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