Reconciling competing pressures for working-time flexibility: An impossible task in the national health service (NHS)?

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 159-170

  McBride, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0037342865     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017003017001273     Document Type: Review

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