Appreciating the ‘work’ of discourse: Occupational identity and difference as organizing mechanisms in the case of commercial airline pilots

Discourse & Communication

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 9-36

  Ashcraft, Karen Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

discourses of difference (e.g. race, gender, class, sexuality); division and hierarchy of labor; intersectionality; job segregation and integration; occupational identity; organization and work studies; organizational communication and discourse studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247478403     PISSN: 17504813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750481307071982     Document Type: Article

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