Becoming a firefighter

Ethnography

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 387-421

  Desmond, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

firefighting; habitus; masculinity; risk; rurality; United States Forest Service; work

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249148498     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138106073142     Document Type: Article

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