Diversity in the lean automobile factory: Doing class through gender, disability and age

Organization

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 105-127

  Zanoni, Patrizia ^a,b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

automobile industry; class; diversity; identities; power

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951504348     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508410378216     Document Type: Article

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