Labor force insecurity and U.S. work attitudes, 1970s-2006

Social Trends in American Life: Findings from the General Social Survey since 1972

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 315-337

  Kalleberg, Arne L ^a   Marsden, Peter V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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