Under the clean surface: Working as a hotel attendant

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 141-148

  Lundberg, Helena ^a   Karlsson, Jan Ch ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

hotel cleaners; organisational misbehaviour; resistance; working conditions

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953652381     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017010389246     Document Type: Article

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