Cultures of labour - work, employment, identity and economic transformations

Handbook of Cultural Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 98-115

  McDowell, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781848608252.n7     Document Type: Chapter

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