The Contexts of Control: Information, Power, and Truck-Driving Work

Information Society

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 160-174

  Levy, Karen E C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW   (United States)

Author keywords

electronic monitoring; information; organizations; social control; sociotechnical systems; surveillance; trucking; work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925970891     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2015.998105     Document Type: Article

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