Australia: Casual employment, part-time employment and the resilience of the male-breadwinner model

Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 60-75

  Campbell, Iain ^a   Whitehouse, Gillian ^b   Baxter, Janeen ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 84917452213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203874424     Document Type: Chapter

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