Introduction and overview: Understanding working time around the world

Working Time: International Trends, Theory and Policy Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-17

  Figart, Deborah M ^a   Golden, Lonnie ^b  

^a RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203183441-1     Document Type: Chapter

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