Working longer hours: Pressure from the boss or pressure from the marketers?

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-65

  George, David ^a  

^a LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grade inflation; Metapreferences; Overwork; Workaholism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937259412     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: 14701162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00346769700000023     Document Type: Article

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