The business of temporary staffing: A developing research agenda

Geography Compass

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1055-1068

  Coe, Neil M ^a   Jones, Katharine ^a   Ward, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; LABOR MARKET; RESEARCH WORK; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 77956686565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00360.x     Document Type: Review

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