Labouring for leisure? Achieving work life balance through compressed working weeks

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Labouring for leisure? Achieving work life balance through compressed working weeks

Flexible work practices spreading work times across the entire week have reduced the time to engage in leisure activities and for some have compounded the problem of a lack of defined break between work weeks. This study examines time spent outside of the workplace through a multiple case study of w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Brown, Kerry, Bradley, L., Lingard, H., Townsend, K., Ling, S.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Routledge 2011
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19664

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