Builders, bodies and bifurcations: How London construction workers 'learn to labour'

Ethnography

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 412-430

  Thiel, Darren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

builders; class bound masculinity; ethnic; informal cultures; Learning to Labour; the state; violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888243555     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: 17412714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138112463656     Document Type: Article

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