Working in film: Employment in a project based industry

Personnel Review

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 170-185

  Blair, Helen ^a   Grey, Susan ^b   Randle, Keith ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employee relations; Film industry; Labour market

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842688673     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480110380334     Document Type: Article

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