Privatization and downsizing in the U.K. public sector: Labor market change, job insecurity, and health

Work Stress: Studies of the Context, Content and Outcomes of Stress: A Book of Readings

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 73-109

  Ferrie, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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