Labouring for leisure? Achieving work-life balance through compressed working weeks

Annals of Leisure Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-59

  Brown, Kerry ^a   Bradley, Lisa ^b   Lingard, Helen ^c   Townsend, Keith ^d   Ling, Sharine ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compressed working week; Time synchronisation; Work life balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859613005     PISSN: 11745398     EISSN: 21596816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2011.575046     Document Type: Article

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