"We make it work": The cultural transformation of hotel workers in the city

Antipode

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 350-373

  Tufts, Steven ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33644977617     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2006.00583.x     Document Type: Article

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