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Producing Ethnographies: Workplace Ethnographies in History

  1. Jennifer Platt,
  2. Charles Crothers,
  3. Mervyn Horgan

Article first published online: 19 NOV 2012

DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.21578

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Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Volume 49, Issue 1, pages 45–62, Winter 2013

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Platt, J., Crothers, C. and Horgan, M. (2013), Producing Ethnographies: Workplace Ethnographies in History. J. Hist. Behav. Sci., 49: 45–62. doi: 10.1002/jhbs.21578

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