Desk clerks and hookers:Hustling in a“Shady” Hotel

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1979, Pages 52-71

  Prus, Robert C ^a   Vassilakopoulos, Steve ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84938050912     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: 15525414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089124167900800103     Document Type: Article

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