Working in Danish retailing: Transitional workers going elsewhere, core employees going nowhere, and career-seekers striving to go somewhere

Low-Wage Work in Denmark

Volumn 9781610445542, Issue , 2008, Pages 140-185

  Esbjerg, Lars ^a   Grunert, Klaus G ^a   Buck, Nuka ^a   Andersen, Anne Mette Sonne ^a  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

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