Women at Work: Tupperware, Passion Parties, and Beyond
- ISBN-10
- 1588267202
- ISBN-13
- 9781588267207
- Series
- Women at Work
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 273
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Lynne Rienner Pub
- Authors
- L. Susan Williams, Michelle Bemiller
Description
Do Tupperware parties and Mary Kay sales empower individual women, or do they exploit personal relationships for corporate gain? Looking through the overlapping lenses of gender, work and culture, L. Susan Williams and Michelle Bemiller critically explore the world of party plan sales.
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- 2019-09-17
- 303 pages
- Ebook
- University of Pittsburgh Press
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- 2005
- 334 pages
- Paperback
- Northumbria University Press
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