Occupational networking as normative control collegial exchange among contract professionals

Work and Occupations

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 12-41

  Osnowitz, Debra ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contract work; Networking; Nonstandard employment; Professionalism; Worker control

Indexed keywords

EID: 31644433356     PISSN: 07308884     EISSN: 15528464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0730888405280160     Document Type: Review

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