Individualization at work?: Subjectivity, teamworking and anti-unionism

Organization

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 243-266

  McCabe, Darren ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automobiles; Collectivism; Dualism; Ethnography; Individualism; Individualization; Labour process theory; Post structuralism; Power; Subjectivity; Teamwork; Trade unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847622093     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508407074227     Document Type: Article

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