"All I want to do is get that check and get drunk": Testifying to resistance in Charles Bukowski's Factotum

Journal of Organizational Change Management

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 386-401

  Rhodes, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Employment; Individual behaviour; Literature; Organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349136840     PISSN: 09534814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09534810910967161     Document Type: Article

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