'I could be dead for two weeks and my boss would never know': Telework and the politics of representation

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-143

  Whittle, Andrea ^a,b,c   Mueller, Frank ^d  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Cardiff Fertility Studies Research Group   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; POLITICS; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; TELECOMMUTING;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 70149098493     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: 1468005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-005X.2009.00224.x     Document Type: Article

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