Flexibility, freedom and women’s emancipation: A Marxist critique of at-home telework

Handbook of Critical Information Systems Research: Theory and Application

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 152-173

  Greenhill, Anita ^a   Wilson, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33749322848     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781845426743.00015     Document Type: Chapter

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