Living with enterprise in an enterprise economy: Freelance and contract workers in the media

Human Relations

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1033-1054

  Storey, John ^a   Salaman, Graeme ^a   Platman, Kerry ^b,c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ageing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enterprising self; Freelance workers; Media; New forms of work; Self identities

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644539194     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726705058502     Document Type: Article

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