'you get really old, really quick': Involuntary long hours in the mining industry

Journal of Industrial Relations

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-29

  Peetz, David ^a   Murray, Georgina ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

12 hour shifts; Fair Work Act; job quality; long working hours; mining industry unreasonable hours; work life balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952944778     PISSN: 00221856     EISSN: 14729296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022185610390294     Document Type: Article

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