Independent Contractors in Direct Selling: Self-Employed but Missing from Official Records

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 95-101

  Brodie, Stewart ^a   Stanworth, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 11144303187     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242698163006     Document Type: Note

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