Getting dirty with humor: Co-constructing workplace identities through performative scripts

Humor

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 511-530

  Schaefer, Zachary A ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

context; dirty work; ethnography; identity work; performative scripts; resistance; workplace humor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887004601     PISSN: 09331719     EISSN: 16133722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/humor-2013-0035     Document Type: Article

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