Dealing with dirt: Servicing and repairing cars

Sociological Research Online

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1-17

  Dant, Tim ^a   Bowles, David ^a  

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Author keywords

Cars; Dirt; Material Culture; Sociology Of Work; Video Data

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444362148     PISSN: 13607804     EISSN: 13607804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5153/sro.793     Document Type: Article

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