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Research note

Unpaid work of love: defining the work–leisure axis of volunteering

Robert Stebbins Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, Calgary, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 339-345 | Received 12 Dec 2011, Accepted 15 Feb 2012, Published online: 18 Apr 2012

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