Student part-time employment: Characteristics and consequences

Education and Training

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-75

  Robotham, David ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Part time employment; Part time workers; Stress; Student experience; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856801313     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400911211198904     Document Type: Article

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