Bodies for Rent: Labor and Marginality in Southern Louisiana

Anthropology of Work Review

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 12-22

  Higgins, Rylan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug dependency; Labor; Louisiana; Marginality; Petroleum industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751568633     PISSN: 0883024X     EISSN: 15481417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/awr.2005.26.3.12     Document Type: Article

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