"What's on the worker's mind": Class passing and the study of the industrial workplace in the 1920s

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 143-161

  Pittenger, Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EMPLOYMENT; HISTORY; INDUSTRY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE;

COGNITION; EMPLOYMENT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; INDUSTRY; PORTRAITS; PSYCHOLOGY, INDUSTRIAL; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0141789843     PISSN: 00225061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.10110     Document Type: Review

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