Families of rural volunteer firefighters

Rural Society

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-25

  Cowlishaw, Sean ^a   Evans, Lynette ^a   McLennan, Jim ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emergency services; Family; Firefighting; Rural; Volunteers; Work family conflict (WFC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 43549104931     PISSN: 10371656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/rsj.351.18.1.17     Document Type: Article

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