Go Back to Texas, Gas Bastards! How a Newcomer Population of Itinerant Energy Workers Manage Dirty Work Stigma in the Marcellus Shale Region

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1153-1167

  Filteau, Matthew R ^a  

^a PROVIDENCE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

boomtown; dirty work; marcellus shale; occupational community; oil and gas; stigma

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; NATURAL RESOURCE; OCCUPATION; OIL FIELD; SAFETY; SHALE;

EID: 84945484173     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2015.1024367     Document Type: Article

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