The Coming of the 24-hour Economy?: Changing work schedules in Belgium between 1966 and 1999

Time & Society

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 63-83

  Glorieux, Ignace ^a   Mestdag, Inge ^a   Minnen, Joeri ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belgium; non standard work times; sequence analysis; time use study; work schedules

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149092703     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X07086310     Document Type: Article

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