Making the best of a bad job? Female part-timers' orientations and attitudes to work

Gender, Work and Organization

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 193-216

  Walters, Sally ^a  

^a Assets Skills   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes to work; Employment commitment; Female part time workers; Job satisfaction; Work attitudes continuum

Indexed keywords

WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; WORKING CONDITIONS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 17644411023     PISSN: 09686673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2005.00270.x     Document Type: Article

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