Working on the edge: Remediation work in the UK travel sector

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 305-322

  Ball, Kirstie ^a   Canhoto, Ana ^a   Daniel, Elizabeth ^a   Dibb, Sally ^a   Meadows, Maureen ^a   Spiller, Keith ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

employees; infrastructure; remediation; security; surveillance; travel

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898894155     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017013490334     Document Type: Article

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