Hotel and catering workers: class and unionisation

Employee Relations

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 176-189

  Piso, Annemarie ^a  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capitalism; Classes order; Commoditization; Hotel and catering; Trade unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986082093     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425459910266448     Document Type: Article

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