Representing shop work: A dual ethnography

Qualitative Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 347-364

  Pettinger, Lynne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Customer service work; Ethnography; Reflexivity; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645061520     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794105054459     Document Type: Article

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