The anthropology of organized labor in the United States

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 36, Issue , 2007, Pages 73-88

  Durrenberger, E Paul ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Class; Collective action; Ethnography; Management; Policy; Practice theory

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; IDEOLOGY; LABOR;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35948999332     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.36.081406.094433     Document Type: Article

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