Working Long Hours and Having No Choice: Time Poverty in Guinea
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Long working hours and health.
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عنوان ژورنال: Feminist Economics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1354-5701,1466-4372
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2010.508574