Changing locus of control: Steelworkers adjusting to forced unemployment

Social Forces

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1521-1537

  Legerski, Elizabeth Miklya ^a   Cornwall, Marie ^b   O'Neil, Brock ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33645922484     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.2006.0054     Document Type: Article

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