Exploitation or fun?: The lived experience of teenage employment in Suburban America

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 319-340

  Besen, Yasemin ^a  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inequality; Labor; Suburbs; Work; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646389252     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: 15525414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241606286817     Document Type: Article

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