Academics on non-standard contracts in UK Universities: Portfolio work, choice and compulsion

Higher Education Quarterly

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 439-460

  Brown, Donna ^a   Gold, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 51249153979     PISSN: 09515224     EISSN: 14682273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2273.2007.00366.x     Document Type: Article

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