Service work in consumer capitalism: Customers, control and contradictions

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 669-687

  Korczynski, Marek ^b   Shire, Karen ^a   Frenkel, Stephen ^c   Tam, May ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

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EID: 0034360885     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/09500170022118671     Document Type: Article

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