Whose flexibility? British employees' responses to flexible capitalism

Flexible Organizations and the New Working Life: A European Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 79-95

  Bradley, Harriet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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