Low-paid but committed to the industry: Salespeople in the retail sector

Low-Wage Work in Germany

Volumn 9781610440769, Issue , 2008, Pages 253-287

  Voss Dahm, Dorothea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

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