Sales floor trajectories: Distinction and service in postsocialist China

Ethnography

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 461-491

  Hanser, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

China; distinction; postsocialism; service work; social change; social mobility; trajectory

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548555177     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138106073147     Document Type: Article

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