Employees “without” families: Discourses of family as an external constraint to work-life balance

The Family Communication Sourcebook

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 335-352

  Lucas, Kristen ^a   Buzzanell, Patrice M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781452233024.n18     Document Type: Chapter

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