Making Firefighters Deployable

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-77

  Desmond, Matthew ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Death; Firefighting; High risk organizations; Human error; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952007970     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: 15737837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11133-010-9176-7     Document Type: Article

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