Resistance through consent?: Occupational Identity, Organizational Form, and the Maintenance of Masculinity Among Commercial Airline Pilots

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-90

  Ashcraft, Karen Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

airline pilots; control; empowerment; gender; occupational identity; professional masculinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990328729     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318905276560     Document Type: Article

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