Work demands and stress in repetitive blue-collar work

Work Stress: Studies of the Context, Content and Outcomes of Stress: A Book of Readings

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 139-163

  Macdonald, Wendy A ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315223339-7     Document Type: Chapter

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