'It's a guesthouse not a brothel': Policing sex in the home-workplace

Human Relations

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 245-269

  Di Domenico, Marialaura ^a   Fleming, Peter ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Guesthouse; Home work boundary; Service work; Sex; Space

Indexed keywords

EID: 59349093883     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726708100359     Document Type: Article

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