Technology, gender, and regulation: Call centres in New Brunswick

Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 246-264

  Good, Tom ^b   McFarland, Joan ^a  

^a ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

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