"Flexible" work practices and occupational safety and health: Exploring the relationship between cumulative trauma disorders and workplace transformation

Industrial Relations

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 242-266

  Brenner, Mark D ^a   Fairris, David ^b   Ruser, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Bureau of Economics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH AND SAFETY; HEALTH IMPACT; WORKING CONDITIONS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 1342332940     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0019-8676.2004.00325.x     Document Type: Article

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