"First, it's dirty. Second, it's dangerous. Third, it's insulting": Urban Chinese Children Talk about Dirty Work

Communication Monographs

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 93-114

  Berkelaar, Brenda L ^a   Buzzanell, Patrice M ^b   Kisselburgh, Lorraine G ^b   Tan, Wufeng ^d   Shen, Yiwen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BEIJING FOREIGN STUDIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Career; Children; China; Culture; Developmental; Dirty Work; Discourse; Engineering; Meanings of Work; Organizational Communication; Socialization; Stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856863578     PISSN: 03637751     EISSN: 14795787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2011.646490     Document Type: Article

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