Class and the Service Encounter: New Approaches to Inequality in the Service Work-place

Sociology Compass

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 293-305

  Hanser, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 84857938707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17519020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00453.x     Document Type: Review

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