Rethinking 'mobile work': Boundaries of space, time and social relation in the working lives of mobile hairstylists

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-84

  Cohen, Rachel Lara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hairstyling; Labour process; Mobile work; Self employment; Temporality; Work life boundaries; Workplaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950230702     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017009353658     Document Type: Article

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