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Does the antiwork perspective contribute to understanding and improving the nature of work?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2024

Joel Lefkowitz*
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Baruch College and The Graduate Center, New York City, NY, USA

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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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