Workforce drug testing: A critique and reframing

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 163-176

  Warren, Samantha ^a   Wray Bliss, Edward ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG USER; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MANAGEMENT; WORKPLACE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70149109808     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: 1468005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-005X.2009.00226.x     Document Type: Article

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