The reluctant workforce: Undergraduates’ part-time employment

Education + Training

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-10

  Curtis, Susan ^a   Williams, John ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Debt; Students; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142084114     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400910210416192     Document Type: Article

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