Hospital speedups and the fiction of a nursing shortage

Labor Studies Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-46

  Lafer, Gordon ^a  

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EID: 61049130684     PISSN: 0160449X     EISSN: 15389758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0160449X0503000103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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