"Getting by" and "Getting on" in service work: Lessons for the future of accounting?

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 809-830

  Lammont, Norma ^a   Lucas, Rosemary ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

The use of educated labour which can multi task, make decisions and act responsibly facilitates the real subsumption of labour.

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012723819     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cpac.1998.0279     Document Type: Article

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