What's a penny worth?: Wages, prices, and the American working man

Ethnography

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 315-355

  Mann, Geoff ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Americanism; collective bargaining; cultural politics; laborgeography; Los Angeles; masculinism; petroleum workers; tradeunions; wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247658241     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138105060760     Document Type: Article

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