Plastic palm trees and blue pumpkins: Synthetic fun and real control in contemporary workspace

Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 213-227

  Baldry, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

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