Selling Your Self in the United States

Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 281-295

  Gershon, Ilana ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Branding; Corporate personhood; Employment; Hiring; Job search; Neoliberalism; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910651999     PISSN: 10816976     EISSN: 15552934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/plar.12075     Document Type: Article

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