Tainted love: From dirty work to abject labour in soho's sex shops

Human Relations

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1477-1500

  Tyler, Melissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

abjection; dirty work; London; organizational space and place; sex shops; Soho; taint and taint management

Indexed keywords

EID: 80555138933     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726711418849     Document Type: Article

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