Doing cleaning work 'scientifically': The reorganization of work in the contract building cleaning industry

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 239-269

  Aguiar, Luís L M ^a,b  

^a Okanagan University College   (Canada)

^b OKANAGAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Building cleaners; Gang cleaning; Reorganization of work; Scientific management; Zone cleaning

Indexed keywords

EID: 20144376368     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143831x01222004     Document Type: Article

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