Counterframes and allegories of evil: Characterizations of labor by Gilded Age elites

Work and Occupations

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 388-421

  Isaac, Larry ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Counterframing; Counterimaging; Counternarrating; Gilded Age; Symbolic opposition to labor

Indexed keywords

EID: 54049084939     PISSN: 07308884     EISSN: 15528464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0730888408325307     Document Type: Review

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