Men, masculinities and firefighting: Occupational identity, shop-floor culture and organisational change

Emotion, Space and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-134

  Thurnell Read, Thomas ^a   Parker, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotional labour; Firefighting; Heroism; Masculinities; Risk danger

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649306601     PISSN: 17554586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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