'A Different World': Shifting Masculinities in the Transition to Call Centres

Organization

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 619-645

  Knights, David ^a   McCabe, Darren ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business reengineering; Empowerment; Gender; Identity; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346347781     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/135050840184004     Document Type: Article

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