The dignity of job-seeking men: Boundary work among immigrant day laborers

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 117-139

  Purser, Gretchen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Day labor; Immigrants; Masculinity; Symbolic boundaries; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849086460     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: 15525414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241607311867     Document Type: Article

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