The mobile phone, perpetual contact and time pressure

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 673-691

  Bittman, Michael ^a   Brown, Judith E ^a   Wajcman, Judy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mobile phones; Time pressure; Time diary; Work intensification

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749087769     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017009344910     Document Type: Article

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