Introduction to the special issue on job quality: What does it mean and how might we think about It?

Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 739-752

  Osterman, Paul ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employment systems; Organizational designs; Working conditions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881155047     PISSN: 00197939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001979391306600401     Document Type: Review

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